Spawn of the Desert (1923)
Directed by Benjamin F. Wilson
Genres - Western |
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Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
Louis King directed this minor William Fairbanks oater, in which the athletic star plays Duke Steele, a prospector whose life is saved by an elderly colleague, Silver Sleed (P. Dempsey Tabler). When his rescuer's wife and child are kidnapped by an evil dance-hall proprietor (Al Hart), Steele goes into action with a vengeance. Co-star P. Dempsey Tabler became the screen's second Tarzan, in The Son of Tarzan (1920). Needless to say, the middle-aged British Thespian was slightly miscast.
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bad-guy, cowboy, daughter, family-member, father, good-guy, gunfighter, rescue, reunion, search