Burning Sands

A George Melford film directed by , released in 1922.

A George Melford film directed by , released in 1922.

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try…

Rod Norton is a lawman searching for his father’s killer. Norton suspects saloon owner Jim Garson but is lacking evidence. Garson’s henchmen, the Rickard brothers, kidnap Norton’s sweetheart Dorothy, hoping to lure the sheriff into a trap.

While James Fordham is away prospecting in Alaska, his wife runs off with Truman Breese. She manages to make her way back to her husband, but dies shortly thereafter.


Nadine Fortier is captured by a band of desert marauders. “The Sheik” wins her in a game of dice but then lets her go – for now.

A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man.

Two cowboys drift into town. Both are broke, and one of them jokingly suggests they rob the local express office. A citizen overhears them, and when the office is robbed soon afterwards, the cowboys are blamed for it.

When Tom Redding’s wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his “friends” desert him–except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west…

Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There…