A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

Drums of the Desert
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5907 feet
Directed by John Waters

Cast: Warner Baxter [John Curry], Marietta Millner [Mary Manton], Ford Sterling [Perkins], Wallace MacDonald [Will Newton], Heinie Conklin [Hi-Lo], George Irving [Professor Elias Manton], Bernard Siegel [Chief Brave Bear], Guy Oliver [Indian agent]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by John Stone, from the [?] short story “Desert Bound” and/or the novel Captives of the Desert? by Zane Grey. Cinematography by C. Edgar Schoenbaum. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 4 June 1927 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP24049]. Released 4 June 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 October 2024.

References: Everson-Western p. ? : Website-AFI.