Nevada (1927 film)

Nevada is a 1927 American Western silent film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, and William Powell. Based on the novel Nevada by Zane Grey, the film is about a former outlaw hired to protect a ranch owners daughter, which angers the ranch foreman who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman spreads a rumor of his rivals dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again. Eventually he captures a gang of cattle rustlers led by the foreman, and with his reputation restored, he marries the girl. This lavish Western film was remade in 1944 as Nevada starring Robert Mitchumthe only time Cooper and Mitchum played the same role.

A feared gunfighter named Nevada Gary Cooper breaks his friend Cash Burridge Ernie Adams from the Lineville jail. When they reach the town of Winthrop, the two men decide to take respectable jobs on a ranch owned by Ben Ide Philip Strange, an Englishman they rescued from Cawthornes gang of cattle rustlers. Fearing the rustlers, Ide hires Nevada to protect his sister, Hettie Thelma Todd, angering the ranch foreman, Clan Dillon William Powell, who is in love with Hettie.The villainous foreman spreads a rumor of his rivals dark past to the sheriff, and soon Nevada and Cash join up with Cawthornes gang in order to escape the sheriff. Unknown to Nevada, Cawthornes gang takes its orders from Dillon, who is the leader of the rustlers. During a raid, Dillon shoots both Cash and Cawthorne, but Nevada learns of his treachery from his dying pal. Later in a confrontation, Nevada is wounded by Dillon but is saved by the arrival of the posse and the evidence given by the wounded Cawthorne against the leader. With his reputation restored, Nevada is free to marry Hettie. ........

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