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Director
  
John Waters

Story by
  
Zane Grey

Country
  
United States

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Western

Duration
  

Language
  
English intertitles

Nevada (1927 film) movie poster

Release date
  
August 1, 1927 (1927-08-01) (USA)

Based on
  
Nevada (novel)  by Zane Grey

Writer
  
John W. Conway (titles), Zane Grey (novel), Gordon Rigby, John Stone

Screenplay
  
John Stone, Gordon Rigby, John W. Conway

Producers
  
Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, E. Lloyd Sheldon

Cast
  
Gary Cooper
(Nevada),
Thelma Todd
(Hettie Ide),
William Powell
(Clan Dillon),
Philip Strange
(Ben Ide),
Ernie Adams
(Cash Burridge),
Christian J. Frank
(Sheriff of Winthrop)

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Nevada is a 1927 American Western silent film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, and William Powell. Based on the novel Nevada by Zane Grey, the film is about a former outlaw hired to protect a ranch owner's daughter, which angers the ranch foreman who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman spreads a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again. Eventually he captures a gang of cattle rustlers led by the foreman, and with his reputation restored, he marries the girl. This lavish Western film was remade in 1944 as Nevada starring Robert Mitchum—the only time Cooper and Mitchum played the same role.

Contents

Nevada still survives in a complete copy, but the film's appearance is not the best, due probably to poor preservation. It is possible to make out scenes, but not as well as other highly restored silent films. This was a very early Western role for Gary Cooper, but his fame in Westerns would be more noticeable in talking pictures.

Parts of the film were shot in Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Cedar Breaks National Monument.

Prospecting for placer gold in gilbert nevada 1927


Plot

A feared gunfighter named Nevada (Gary Cooper) breaks his friend Cash Burridge (Ernie Adams) from the Lineville jail. When they reach the town of Winthrop, the two men decide to take respectable jobs on a ranch owned by Ben Ide (Philip Strange), an Englishman they rescued from Cawthorne's gang of cattle rustlers. Fearing the rustlers, Ide hires Nevada to protect his sister, Hettie (Thelma Todd), angering the ranch foreman, Clan Dillon (William Powell), who is in love with Hettie.

The villainous foreman spreads a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and soon Nevada and Cash join up with Cawthorne's gang in order to escape the sheriff. Unknown to Nevada, Cawthorne's gang takes its orders from Dillon, who is the leader of the rustlers. During a raid, Dillon shoots both Cash and Cawthorne, but Nevada learns of his treachery from his dying pal. Later in a confrontation, Nevada is wounded by Dillon but is saved by the arrival of the posse and the evidence given by the wounded Cawthorne against the leader. With his reputation restored, Nevada is free to marry Hettie.

Cast

  • Gary Cooper as Nevada
  • Thelma Todd as Hettie Ide
  • William Powell as Clan Dillon
  • Philip Strange as Ben Ide
  • Ernie Adams as Cash Burridge
  • Christian J. Frank as Sheriff of Winthrop
  • Ivan Christy as Cawthorne
  • Guy Oliver as Lineville Sheriff
  • Jim Corey as Bearded Henchman (uncredited)

    • Preservation

  • Copies survive and are held at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House.

    • References

    Nevada (1927 film) Wikipedia
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    Nevada (1927 film) IMDb Nevada (1927 film) themoviedb.org