Desert Law (1918 film)

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Desert Law
Directed by Jack Conway
Written by George Elwood Jenks
Louis H. Kilpatrick
Starring
Cinematography William M. Edmond
Production
company
Distributed byTriangle Distributing
Release date
  • September 15, 1918 (1918-09-15)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Desert Law is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Jack Conway and starring Gayne Whitman, Jack Richardson and George C. Pearce. [1]

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Plot summary

Don McLane and Julia Wharton are engaged. Rufe Dorsey, the local boss, who is above the law, covets Julia and "frames" Don for murder. He is given a prison sentence. Don is liberated at a junction point by Julia's brothers, and they beat a retreat to the Wharton homestead, whither Dorsey goes to get the prisoner again. A stranger who recently appeared in the town joins the defending forces, and when the fight goes against them, he reveals himself to Dorsey as the Governor of the state. Dorsey has gone too far and determines to kill the Governor too, but the Governor has sent for the militia and they arrive in time to rescue the besieged, while a friend of Don's rides in with the "murdered" man, who was "very much alive this morning, but plenty dead now," for he had been shot in self defense.

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  1. Parish & Pitts p.76

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