Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theatres
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Pandora's Box BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Desert Secret (1924)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 

The Desert Secret
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Frederick Reel Jr.

Cast: Bill Patton, Pauline Curley [?] [Peggy Madison]?

H. & B. Film Company production; distributed by Madoc Sales. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was granted a New York state exhibition license on 24 May 1924.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: [Motion Picture News Booking Guide, October 1924, page 201] Two partners in a prospecting deal locate ‘pay dirt.’ One has a weakness for drink and while intoxicated tells the location of his discovery. A rush to file claims starts, and the other partner believing himself done out of his land disappears for a time. Later when he returns, however, he finds that the land has been secured to him by Peggy Madison, a girl he loved and who was the first to file a claim on the land.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Gold mines

Listing updated: 3 May 2014.

References: Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Desert Secret (1924)
 
3 Bad Men BD
Become a Patron of Silent Era

LINKS IN THIS COLUMN
WILL TAKE YOU TO
EXTERNAL WEBSITES

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

Little Rascals Vol 1 BD

Beloved Rogue BD

Hitchcock: Beginning BD

Cat and the Canary Standard BD

Anna Boleyn BD