Lightnin' Bill Williams, the owner of a 50,000-acre ranch near the town of Cactusville, takes a fall off a cliff, and the experience affects him to the extent that he has lost his nerve. Oil promoter Dan Carson and geologist Lional Murphy find large oil deposits under Bill's ranch, and decide to swindle him out of them. Complications ensue.
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Jean Arthur as Marie Denton
William Bailey as William W. Williams
Charles Meakin as Daniel Carson
Edward Heim as John R. Denton
Jack Henderson as Edward G. Hookem
Tom Shirley as Lionel Jay Murphy
Louis Chaudet Director
United States 29 June 1926
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14 October 1925
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30 June 1922
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01 June 1923
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25 May 1919
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15 November 1924
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15 December 1924
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31 May 1926
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25 July 1926
While Pop Morton, a rancher, is being sworn in as deputy sheriff, his daughter Molly, to escape the unwelcome attentions of usurer Blair Hatley (who holds the mortgage on their ranch), meets Art Downs.
14 March 1926
Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.
26 June 1926
Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat.
06 November 1926
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
01 January 1926
The naval officer Maurice de Vergnes, tired of the extravagance of his fiancée Moussia, finds with pleasure a childhood friend: Anna.
14 February 1926
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground.
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