Big Timber (1924 film) explained

Big Timber
Director:	George Melford
Producer:	Carl Laemmle
Based On:	The Heart of the Night Wind by Vingie E. Roe
Starring:	William Desmond Olive Hasbrouck Betty Francisco
Cinematography:	Jackson Rose
Studio:	Universal Pictures
Distributor:	Universal Pictures
Runtime:	50 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Big Timber is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and starring William Desmond, Olive Hasbrouck and Betty Francisco.^[1] It is adapted from a 1913 novel The Heart of the Night Wind by Vingie E. Roe.^[2] It is not a remake of the 1917 film of the same title, itself based on a novel by Bertrand William Sinclair.^[3]

Cast

• William Desmond as Walter Sandry
• Olive Hasbrouck as Sally O'Hara
• Betty Francisco as Poppy Ordway
• Ivor McFadden as John Daly
• Lydia Yeamans Titus as Ma Daly
• Albert J. Smith as Fred Hampden

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Munden p.59
2. Goble p.395
3. Goble p.430