Riders of the Purple Sage (1931)

Directed by

Hamilton MacFadden

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

58 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lone rider protects a woman from a powerful rancher. This is an early sound western based on a Zane Grey novel.

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What happens

Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film based upon the 1912 novel by Zane Grey, directed by Hamilton MacFadden, photographed by George Schneiderman, and starring George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill. The picture was released by the Fox Film Corporation with a running time of 58 minutes and remains the third of five screen versions. It was the first sound version. The movie was followed later the same year by a similar adaptation of the novel's sequel, The Rainbow Trail, also starring O'Brien. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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