Wild Horse Mesa

United States

1925

95 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

Silent

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor

CAST Jack Holt, Noah Berry, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., George Magrill, George Irving, Edith Yorke, Bernard Siegel, Margaret Morris, Gary Cooper, Eugene Pallette, Tom Tyler

Synopsis

Manerube conceives the dastardly plan of driving horses into a canyon whose exit is blocked by a barbed wire fence that he argues will bring the horses up short. They won’t, he claims, run into the fence in their eagerness to escape their pursuers. When Chane Weymer points out the fallacy in this plan, Manerube joins forces with Bud McPherson and the action doesn’t let up until the final romantic fade-out. —Mysteryfile.com

Director

George B. Seitz

George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director. He was known for his screenplays for action serials, including:

The Perils of Pauline (1914) The Exploits of Elaine (1914) The Shielding Shadow (1916) The Black Secret (1919) The Iron Claw (1916) The Phantom Foe (1920) The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for “up-market” pulp magazines such as Adventure and People’s Magazine.

Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America’s first motion picture industry were based there. He was the director of 107 films, the writer of 31 screenplays, and an actor in 7 films. He worked at Columbia Pictures and at MGM where he directed 11 of the Andy Hardy series of films of the 1930s & 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California. Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer… read more