The Heritage of the Desert (film)

This article is about the 1924 silent film. For later remakes, see Heritage of the Desert (1932 film) and Heritage of the Desert (1939 film).

The Heritage of the Desert
File:The-Heritage-of-the-Desert-1924.jpg Lobby card
Directed by	Irvin Willat
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Written by	Zane Grey (novel) Albert S. LeVino (adaptation)
Starring	Bebe Daniels Ernest Torrence Noah Beery
Cinematography	Charles Schoenbaum
Edited by	Howard Hawks
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	January 23, 1924 (1924-01-23)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

The Heritage of the Desert (1924) is a Western film based on the novel by Zane Grey, and starring Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, and Noah Beery.

The film was released by Paramount Pictures with sequences filmed in an early Technicolor process. A print is reportedly preserved in the Gosfilmofond archive in Moscow.

Cast

• Bebe Daniels - Mescal
• Ernest Torrence - August Naab
• Noah Beery - Holderness
• Lloyd Hughes - Jack Hare
• Anne Schaefer - Mrs. Naab (*as Anne Schaeffer)
• Jim Mason - Snap Naab(as James Mason)
• Richard Neill - Dene (*as Richard R. Neill)
• Tom London - Dave Naab (*as Leonard Clapham)

See also

• List of early color feature films
• List of lost films

External links

• The Heritage of the Desert at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Heritage of the Desert at IMDb
• Australian daybill long poster
• accessible version of long poster