Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1941 American Western film based on the 1912 novel by Zane Grey, directed by James Tinling, and starring George Montgomery as Lassiter and Mary Howard as Jane Withersteen. The picture is the fourth of five screen adaptations of Grey's novel produced across an eight-decade span.
| Riders of the Purple Sage | |
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| Directed by | James Tinling |
| Screenplay by | William Bruckner Robert F. Metzler |
| Based on | Riders of the Purple Sage 1912 novel by Zane Grey |
| Produced by | Sol M. Wurtzel |
| Starring | George Montgomery Mary Howard Robert Barrat |
| Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
| Edited by | Nick DeMaggio |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 54 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot edit
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Jim Lassiter learns early on that his niece Fay Larkin has been cheated out of her inheritance by crooked Judge Dyer.[1]
Cast edit
- George Montgomery as Jim Lassiter
- Mary Howard as Jane Withersteen
- Robert Barrat as Judge Dyer
- Lynne Roberts as Bess
- Kane Richmond as Adam Dyer
- Patsy Patterson as Fay Larkin
- Richard Lane as Oldring
- Oscar O'Shea as Noah Judkins
- James Gillette as Venters
- Frank McGrath as Pete
- LeRoy Mason as Jerry Card
Other films based on novel edit
References edit
External links edit
- Riders of the Purple Sage at IMDb
- Riders of the Purple Sage at the TCM Movie Database
- Riders of the Purple Sage at AllMovie
- Riders of the Purple Sage at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Riders of the Purple Sage[permanent dead link] in TV Guide
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