Desperate Trails (1921)

INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
Bart Carson (Carey) is in love with Lou (La Marr) and even goes to jail
to save Walter A. Walker (Coxen), a man she says is her brother
but who is really a husband who has deserted his wife and two children.
After he learns the truth, Bart breaks out of jail and trails Walter,
who falls off a train trying to escape.
Bart then seeks refuge in a cabin with Mrs. Walker (Rich), where he is captured,
but the officials have learned the truth and promise him a pardon.

Cast
Harry Carey ... Bart Carson
Irene Rich ... Mrs. Walker
Georgie Stone ... Dannie Boy
Helen Field ... Carrie
Edward Coxen ... Walter A. Walker
Barbara La Marr ... Lady Lou
George Siegmann ... Sheriff Price
Charles Inslee ... Doc Higgins (as Charles E. Insley)
Harry Carey Jr. ... Young Baby (uncredited)

Directed
John Ford ... (as Jack Ford)

Writing Credits
Elliott J. Clawson
Courtney Ryley Cooper ... (story "Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte")

Cinematography
Robert De Grasse
Harry M. Fowler ... (as Harry Fowler)

Other crew
Carl Laemmle ... presenter

Desperate Trails is a 1921 American western film
directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey.

The film is considered to be lost.

Worth noting, this movie makes the first appearance of Ford and Duke
regular Irene Rich.

Also Harry Carey Jr.'s first appearance as the young baby

User Review

Desperate Trails (1921) - Lost Silent
16 July 2015 | by Pamela Short (Canada)

Quote from pamela

Bart Carson ( Harry Carey ) believes himself to be in love with Lady Lou ( Barbara La Marr ) and is persuaded by her to assume the guilt for her "brother,"

who has deserted his wife and children and robbed the train. In prison Bart learns that the "brother," Walker ( Edward Coxen ), is actually Lou's lover, and he escapes to kill him, then goes to the Walker home on Christmas Eve. So that Mrs. Walker ( Irene Rich ) will receive the reward, he gives himself up as the prisoner of her young son, but the sheriff informs him that Lou has confessed her treachery and that justice will prevail.

This 1921 western/drama was directed by John Ford and produced for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Starring actor Harry Carey, Barbara La Marr and Irene Rich, Desperate Trails now remains a lost silent film.