Tumbleweeds (1925 film)

Tumbleweeds is a 1925 American Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart. It depicts the Cherokee Strip land rush of 1893. The film is said to have influenced the Oscarwinning 1931 Western Cimarron, which also depicts the land rush. The 1939 Astor Pictures rerelease of Tumbleweeds includes an 8minute introduction by the then 75yearold Hart as he talks about his career and the glories of the old west. Tumbleweeds was Harts last movie.

Reviews at the time of its release praised Tumbleweeds as good entertainment. The New York Times reviewed the film in 1925 and wrote that Harts performance emphasized righteousness, his mental dexterity and physical prowess in the role of Carver. Although much of Don Carvers accuracy in shooting and his turning up at the psychological moment is nothing but the cameras good work, ... Mr. Carver, impersonated by Mr. Hart, frequently won applause from the audience yesterday afternoon.A 1926 review of Tumbleweeds in Photoplay Magazine says Bill Hart returns to the screen in a story laid in the time when the Indian territory was turned over to the homesteaders. The scene in which the prospective land owners, waiting for the cannons boom which would send them racing in to stake their claims, furnished a brand new thrill...It is good entertainment. ........

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