Western pardners Jeff (J. Farrell MacDonald) and Cash (William Farnum) find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants camp, and clash over which is to be "father". They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates.
For other uses, see Painted Desert (disambiguation) The Painted Desert (1931 in film) is a film released by RKO Radio Pictures, produced by E. B. Derr, it was directed by Howard Higgin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Buckingham. It starred low-budget Western (genre) stars William Boyd (actor) (in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days) and Helen Twelvetrees, and featured a young Clark Gable in his sound film debut. The picture was shot mostly on location in Arizona.
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