The Painted Desert (Western, 1931) William Boyd, Clark Gable | Colorized | Full Movie | Subtitled - Summary

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- The transcript is from a western movie about a feud between two old friends, Jeff Cameron and Cash Holbrook, over water and land rights in the desert.
- Jeff finds an abandoned baby near a water body and raises him as his son, Dan, while Cash adopts another boy, Bill, who turns out to be Jeff's biological son.
- Bill discovers tungsten ore on Jeff's land and convinces Cash to invest in a mining partnership with Jeff, but Jeff refuses to reconcile with Cash.
- Rance Brett, a mysterious stranger who works for Jeff, sabotages the mine and the carts to ruin the partnership and get Mary Ellen, Jeff's daughter and Bill's fiancée, for himself.
- Cash is falsely accused of the sabotage by Brett, but Bill exposes him and gets wounded in a shootout.
- Jeff and Cash finally make peace and help each other save Bill and the mine.

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- The text is a transcript of a movie called "The Painted Desert" from 1931.
- The movie is about a feud between two former friends, Jeff Cameron and Cash Holbrook, over water rights in the desert.
- Jeff Cameron finds an abandoned baby near a water hole and raises him as his son, Dan.
- Cash Holbrook adopts another boy, Bill, who turns out to be Jeff's biological son.
- Dan and Bill grow up to be friends and partners in a tungsten mine, but their fathers remain enemies.
- A man named Rance Brett sabotages the mine and tries to frame Cash Holbrook for it.
- Dan and Bill fall in love with the same girl, Mary Ellen, who is Jeff's daughter.
- The movie ends with a shootout between Jeff, Cash, and Rance, where Rance is killed and the others reconcile.