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Marked Men
Also known as The Gift of the Desert in the USA
(1919) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Jack Ford (John Ford)

Cast: Harry Carey [Cheyenne Harry], J. Farrell MacDonald [Tom ‘Placer’ McGraw], Joe Harris [Tom Gibbons], Ted Brooks [Tony Garcia], Winifred Westover [Ruby Merril], Charles Lemoyne [Sheriff Cushing], Tom Gribbon, [?] David Kirby [‘Bruiser’ Kelly]?

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [It’s a Universal Picture]. / Produced by [?] P.A. Powers (Pat Powers)? Scenario by H. Tipton Steck, from the novel The Three Godfathers by Peter Bernard Kyne. Cinematography by John W. Brown. Film editors, Frank Lawrence and Frank Atkinson. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 8 January 1920 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP14630]. Released 21 December 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Gift of the Desert. The novel was previously filmed as The Three Godfathers (1916). Ford would later remake the film as Three Godfathers (1948), with John Wayne.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2824, and in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 35.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Children: Babies, Infants - Criminals: Fugitives, Outlaws - Death - Deserts - Law: Enforcement: Police: Sheriffs

Listing updated: 17 December 2022.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2824; Edmonds-BigU p. 104; Gallagher-Ford p. 242; Hirschhorn-Universal pp. 35, 67; Sinclair-Ford pp. 24, 232 : Website-AFI.

 
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