Tumbleweeds (1925)

Director:

King Baggot

Writers:

Hal G. Evarts (story)
C. Gardner Sullivan (adaptation)

Release Date:

27 December 1925 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The...

Plot Keywords:

Cherokee Strip | Oklahoma | Homesteader | Kansas

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

William S. Hart	...	Don Carver
Barbara Bedford	...	Molly Lassiter
Lucien Littlefield	...	Kentucky Rose
J. Gordon Russell	...	Noll Lassiter
Richard Neill	...	Bill Freel (as Richard R. Niell)
Jack Murphy	...	Bart Lassiter
James Gordon	...	Joe Hinman
George F. Marion	...	Old man (as George Marion)
Gertrude Claire	...	Old woman
Lillian Leighton	...	Widow Riley

Runtime:

78 min | Spain:82 min | Canada:76 min (Ontario)

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Certification:

USA:Approved (1939 re-issue) | Canada:G (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company:

William S. Hart Productions

Trivia:

Ironically, tumbleweeds - the plant this movie is named after - are not native to Texas; they come from Russia.

Quotes:

Don Carver: Boys, it's the last of the West.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000) (TV)

Routine Western with exciting land rush sequence

I am not a Western fan so this did not strike me as anything more than routine. It does boast an excitingly photographed and edited five minute land rush sequence that occurs 55 minutes into the film. Otherwise, it's okay, nothing great. Hart's famed 8 minute sound farewell which opens the 1939 reissue of the film is so overacted, so full of nineteenth century melodramatic stage projections, that it is more an embarrassment for the poor old man than the touching event almost universally described by others.