The Great Divide

The Great Divide — Plot

Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, Edgar. Manuella, a Spanish halfbreed hopelessly in love with Ghent, causes Ruth to return to her fiancé when she insinuates that Ghent belongs to her. Ghent follows Ruth, kidnaps her, and takes her into the wilderness to endure hardship. There she discovers that she loves Ghent, and she discards Edgar in favor of him.

• Release date
• September 15, 1929
• Runtime
• 72 min
• Genres
• Action, Romance, Western
• Director
• Reginald Barker

The Great Divide — Cast

Dorothy Mackaill Ruth Jordan Ian Keith Steven Ghent Myrna Loy Manuella Creighton Hale Edgar Blossom Lucien Littlefield Texas Tommy Ben Hendricks Jr. Dutch Romero George Fawcett Macgregor Claude Gillingwater Winthrop Amesbury