A Desert Wooing (1918)
Drama, Western | 23 June 1918
Director:
Jerome StormWriter:
J. G. HawksProduction Designer:
G. Harold PercivalProduction Company:
Thomas H. Ince Corp.The working title for this film was A Desert Mating. Referring to it by that name, a 23 March 1918 Motion Picture News item announced that Enid Bennett and Thurston Hall were set to co-star in the picture, which was scheduled to begin filming after Bennett’s honeymoon with her new husband, Fred Niblo. Shortly after, an item in the 30 March 1918 issue stated that Jack Holt had taken over the leading man role, and noted that principal photography was slated to begin in the next two days. Shooting took place at Thomas H. Ince Corp.’s studio in Culver City, as indicated in the August 1918 issue of Motion Picture Magazine.
The film was released on 23 June 1918. Positive reviews in the 5 July 1918 Variety and 20 July 1918 Exhibitors Herald and Motography praised the photography and interior settings. The latter issue included a report that the Chicago Board of Censors required the following cuts from the film prior to its release in Chicago, IL: “Reel 3, subtitle ‘You may be mad—but you must pay’; first two choking scenes; closeup of man looking at woman through window; all scenes of woman in bed up to time she appears with robe on, after man enters room.”
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, A Desert Wooing is extant. ...
The working title for this film was A Desert Mating. Referring to it by that name, a 23 March 1918 Motion Picture News item announced that Enid Bennett and Thurston Hall were set to co-star in the picture, which was scheduled to begin filming after Bennett’s honeymoon with her new husband, Fred Niblo. Shortly after, an item in the 30 March 1918 issue stated that Jack Holt had taken over the leading man role, and noted that principal photography was slated to begin in the next two days. Shooting took place at Thomas H. Ince Corp.’s studio in Culver City, as indicated in the August 1918 issue of Motion Picture Magazine.
The film was released on 23 June 1918. Positive reviews in the 5 July 1918 Variety and 20 July 1918 Exhibitors Herald and Motography praised the photography and interior settings. The latter issue included a report that the Chicago Board of Censors required the following cuts from the film prior to its release in Chicago, IL: “Reel 3, subtitle ‘You may be mad—but you must pay’; first two choking scenes; closeup of man looking at woman through window; all scenes of woman in bed up to time she appears with robe on, after man enters room.”
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, A Desert Wooing is extant.
Mrs. Bereton, a socially prominent but nearly penniless Easterner, marries her daughter Avice to wealthy cattleman Barton Masters. Before the ceremony, Avice promises Dr. Fortescue Van Fleet, with whom she has been carrying on a flirtation, that her marriage will mean nothing, but after she moves to Barton's ranch, she comes to respect her husband deeply. When the wedding party, consisting of Van Fleet as well as Avice's mother and brother Billy, visits the ranch, Van Fleet attacks Avice in her room, but Barton catches him and turns him out. The next day, Barton sends Avice's relatives home and compels her to work on the ranch. She is resentful until Van Fleet returns and shoots Barton, seriously wounding him. At the point of a gun, Avice forces the doctor to tend her husband's injury, and after Barton's recovery, she devotes herself to ...
Mrs. Bereton, a socially prominent but nearly penniless Easterner, marries her daughter Avice to wealthy cattleman Barton Masters. Before the ceremony, Avice promises Dr. Fortescue Van Fleet, with whom she has been carrying on a flirtation, that her marriage will mean nothing, but after she moves to Barton's ranch, she comes to respect her husband deeply. When the wedding party, consisting of Van Fleet as well as Avice's mother and brother Billy, visits the ranch, Van Fleet attacks Avice in her room, but Barton catches him and turns him out. The next day, Barton sends Avice's relatives home and compels her to work on the ranch. She is resentful until Van Fleet returns and shoots Barton, seriously wounding him. At the point of a gun, Avice forces the doctor to tend her husband's injury, and after Barton's recovery, she devotes herself to him.
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