''The Desert Flower'' is a 1925 American silent

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film directed by

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and written by

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. It is based on the 1924 play ''The Desert Flower'' by Don Mullally. The film stars Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Kate Price,

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, Fred Warren, and Frank Brownlee. The film was released on June 21, 1925, by First National Pictures.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Maggie Fortune, left motherless in her box car home in the West, meets the dissipated Rance Conway, son of a wealthy New Yorker who has turned him out. She is taught to read as she attempts to reform him. Her stepfather Mike Dyer admires her, but after a struggle with him she runs away with her little sister to Bull Frog, a new mining town. With the first money she earns in the dance hall there, she sends the baby to a nursing home in San Francisco, and proceeds to make a man out of Rance, whom she now deeply loves. She taunts Rance in a new attempt to make a man out of him, and grub stakes him. He returns, having conquered his desire for drink. He has found a gold mine for which $10,000 has been offered, just as Dyer has located Maggie. Dyer has almost overpowered Maggie when a gunshot is fired and he apparently drops dead. Maggie, Rance, and José Lee each claim that they fired the shot. Dyer however is only wounded. Rance takes Maggie on a honeymoon to his home in New York.

Cast

Production

During production, Colleen Moore fell and injured her vertebra, thus resulting in her being placed in a cast for six weeks and delaying production. This was the third of five films, in three years, with Moore and Hughes starring in the lead roles. They also appeared together in '' The Huntress'' (1923), ''

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Images

File:Desert Flower - Photoplay 1925.jpg, Colleen Moore, left and Llyod Hughes, right File:Photoplay Desert Flower 02 - Colleen Moore.jpg, Colleen Moore in an ad for the film File:The Desert Flower (1925) - 5.jpg, Colleen Moore and the film crew File:The Desert Flower (1925) - 2.jpg, Colleen Moore recovering from her injured vertebra File:The Desert Flower (1925) - 3.jpg, Colleen Moore with her body cast after recovering

References

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