The Painted Desert
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| The Painted Desert | |
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 DVD cover for the film |
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| Directed by | Howard Higgin |
| Produced by | E. B. Derr |
| Written by | Tom Buckingham |
| Starring | Clark Gable |
| Music by | Francis Gromon |
| Cinematography | Edward Snyder |
| Editing by | Clarence Kolster |
| Distributed by | RKO |
| Release date(s) | 7 March 1931 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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The Painted Desert was an RKO film, released in 1931, marking the debut of Clark Gable in a sound picture. Gable's performance as Rance Brett, an unshaven former criminal who does not feel sorry about the crimes he has committed, made him an important supporting actor overnight as the result of an avalanche of unexpected fan mail and opened the door for him to become "The King of Hollywood" during the 1930s. Gable's extraordinarily powerful voice proved extremely effective for sound films. The low-budget western starred William Boyd in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days as well as early sound starlette Helen Twelvetrees. Oddly, another actor with a powerful voice, Robert Mitchum, also started out playing a bearded villain in a William Boyd movie twelve years later. Both Gable and Mitchum drew so much fan mail that the studios had no choice but to take notice.
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