Movie

Desert Law (1918)

• September 15, 1918
• 50m

• Drama
• Western

Overview

Don McLane and Julia Wharton are engaged. Rufe Dorsey, the local boss, who is above the law, covets Julia and "frames" Don for murder. He is given a prison sentence. Don is liberated at a junction point by Julia's brothers and they beat a retreat to the Wharton homestead, whither Dorsey goes to get the prisoner again. A stranger who recently appeared in the town joins the defending forces and when the fight goes against them he reveals himself to Dorsey as the Governor of the state.

Director

Jack Conway

Writers

George Elwood Jenks, Louis H. Kilpatrick

Starring

Gayne Whitman, Jack Richardson, George C. Pearce