The Desert Scorpion

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.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Edmund Cobb as the Sheepherder
 * Vida Johnson as his daughter
 * Clare Hatten as the Cattle Queen
 * Otis B. Thayer as the Sheriff
 * Gretchen Wood as a sheepherder's wife
 * Zelma Edwards
 * Frank Gallager
 * A. E. McCormick
 * Dave Campbell
 * Babe Courvoisier
 * Fred Shafer
 * Lewis Milner

Crew

 * Otis B. Thayer Managing Director
 * Vernon L. Walker Head Cameraman
 * H. Haller Murphy Cameraman