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Director:
Howard Higgin
Writers:
Tom Buckingham (story) &
Howard Higgin (story)
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Release Date:
7 March 1931 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Plot:
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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William Boyd ... Bill Holbrook (as Bill Boyd)
Helen Twelvetrees ... Mary Ellen Cameron
William Farnum ... Bill 'Cash' Holbrook
J. Farrell MacDonald ... Jeff Cameron

Clark Gable ... Rance Brett
Charles Sellon ... Tonopah
Hugh Adams ... 'Dynamite'
Wade Boteler ... Bob Carson - Ore Wagon #1 Driver
Will Walling ... Kirby
Edmund Breese ... Judge Matthews
Edward Hearn ... Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
William Le Maire ... Denver (as William LeMaire)
Richard Cramer ... Provney - Ore Wagon #1 Shotgun Rider
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
79 min | USA:85 min (copyright length) | 75 min (Turner library print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | UK:U
Filming Locations:
Arizona, USA more
Company:
Pathé Exchange more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Clark Gable's talkie debut more
Quotes:
[Cash and Jeff rescue a baby from a deserted wagon]
Cash Holbrook: What have we got that'll feed his gizzard? He can't chaw jerky!
Jeff Cameron: Aw, you don't know nothin'. There's oatmeal gruel and a mite of bacon grease'll see him through.
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Movie Connections:
Version of Painted Desert (1938) more
Soundtrack:
Trail to Mexico (Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie) more

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Give Helen a break, 10 November 2003
2/10
Author: bethie-3 from Glendale, AZ

This movie is pretty unwatchable. True Clark Gable is the best thing about this movie but Helen Twelvetrees is pretty in it. At this time most people were trying to talk into the microphone, forget about acting. She does just as good as the other actors in this film.

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