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The Desert Scorpion is a american film of genre Western directed by Otis Thayer with Edmund F. Cobb

The Desert Scorpion (1920)

The Desert Scorpion
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Length 50minutes
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OriginUSA
Genres Western
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The Desert Scorpion (originally titled The Last of the Open Range) is a 1920 western silent film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Edmund Cobb and Vida Johnson. The film was shot in Denver, Colorado by the Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company.

Synopsis

A feud between sheepherders and cattlemen heats up when the cattlemetn set fire to the sheepherder's homes. The Sheepherder, who is in love with the Cattle Queen's daughter, leads a robbery on the cattlemen's bank. The Sheriff's daughter is impregnated and deserted by the Cattle Queen's daughter's fiance. The sheepherders rescue her and abduct the Cattle King's daughter to nurse her back to health. The cattlemen track them back to the cabin where everything is revealed and forgiven. And the Cattle Queen's daughter falls in love with the Sheepherder.

Actors

Edmund F. Cobb

(the Sheepherder)Otis Thayer

(the Sheriff)Otis B. Thayer

(the Sheriff)Countess Stoeffel

(a shepherder's wife)
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