| The Desert Scorpion | |
| Director: | Otis B. Thayer |
| Story: | L. V. Jefferson |
| Starring: | Edmund Cobb |
| Studio: | Art-O-Graph Film Company |
| Distributor: | Arrow Film Corporation |
| Runtime: | 6 reels |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent English intertitles |
The Desert Scorpion (originally titled The Last of the Open Range) is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Edmund Cobb and Vida Johnson. The film was shot in Denver, Colorado by the Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company.[1] [2] [3] [4]
A feud between sheepherders and cattlemen heats up when the cattlemen set fire to the sheepherder's homes. The Sheepherder, who is in love with the Cattle Queen's daughter, leads a robbery on the cattlemen's bank. The Sheriff's daughter is impregnated and deserted by the Cattle Queen's daughter's fiancé. The sheepherders rescue her and abduct the Cattle King's daughter to nurse her back to health. The cattlemen track them back to the cabin where everything is revealed and forgiven. And the Cattle Queen's daughter falls in love with the Sheepherder.