The Winning of Barbara Worth
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Director Henry King Story by Harold Bell Wright Duration Language English intertitles | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance, Western Producer Samuel Goldwyn Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 14, 1926 (1926-10-14) (USA) Based on The Winning of Barbara Worth
by Harold Bell Wright Writer Rupert Hughes (titles), Frances Marion (adaptation), Harold Bell Wright (novel) Cast Ronald Colman (Willard Holmes), Vilma Banky (Barbara Worth), Gary Cooper (Abe Lee), Charles Willis Lane (Jefferson Worth), Paul McAllister (The Seer), E.J. Ratcliffe (James Greenfield)Similar movies Flight of the Phoenix , Exterminators of the Year 3000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
the winning of barbara worth 1926 vilma banky ronald colman gary cooper
The Winning of Barbara Worth is a 1926 American Western silent film directed by Henry King and starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, and Gary Cooper (replacing Monte Blue, busy with Ernst Lubitsch's So This Is Paris) in his first feature role. Based on the novel The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright, the film is notable for the climactic flood sequence, depicting the 1905 formation of the Salton Sea.
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Plot
As a child, Barbara is orphaned when her settler parents perish trying to cross a California desert. She is rescued and raised by Jefferson Worth, who dreams of irrigating the desert. Fifteen years later, Willard Holmes, the chief engineer of a company intent on diverting the Colorado River to do just that, arrives and is smitten with Barbara. However, he has a rival for her affections: local cowboy Abe Lee.
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Production
The movie was filmed in California's Imperial Valley and in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
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