Heritage of the Desert

Zane Grey's pen... again sends a devil-may-care youth... on an exciting trail of adventure and romance.

• Rated 6.6 out of 10
• Movie
• 1939
• 1h 13m
• Western

John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.

Director

Lesley Selander

Starring

Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden, Robert Barrat