''Hearts of the West'' is a 1925 American silent

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film directed and coproduced by Ward Lascelle, written by

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and starring

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and real life wife

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. Cuneo also coproduced with Lascelle. It is possibly a

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. A printed

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catalogue shows it held in the

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collection but the LOC online database shows no holdings.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p.77 c.1978 by the American Film Institute

Cast

* Annabelle Lee * Charles King * Slim Padgett

References

External links

Hearts of the West at IMDb.com
* 1925 films 1925 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Arrow Film Corporation films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films {{silent-film-stub