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The Desperate Game
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph Franz and Milburn Morante

Cast: Pete Morrison [Jim Wesley], Dolores Gardner [Marguerite Grayson], James Welsh (Jim Welsh) [Mr. Wesley, Jim’s father], Jere Austin [Mel Larrimer], J.P. Lockney [Adam Grayson], Al Richmond [Montana McGraw], Virginia Warwick [Belle Deane], Lew Meehan [Bat Grayson], Milburn Morante [Shinney], William Merrill McCormick {Merrill McCormick) [Luke Grayson], Bert Lindley [Pat Davis], Lightning the horse

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Blue Streak Western]. / Scenario by Frank S. Beresford, from a screen story by George C. Jenks (George Elwood Jenks). Cinematography by William Thornley. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / Released 14 February 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 9 October 2022.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 53 : Website-IMDb.