''Desert Pursuit'' is a 1952 American

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film directed by George Blair and starring

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, Virginia Grey and George Tobias. The film is based on the story "Horse Thieves' Hosanna" by Kenneth Perkins, originally published in the December 1948 issue of Blue Book.

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and other sources credit the screenplay to a novel called "Starlight Canyon." However, Perkins never published a novel under that title. Among his papers at the

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is a typescript story titled "Starlight Canyon" with a handwritten note identifying the title under which it was published.

Plot

Cast

as Ford Smith * Virginia Grey as Mary Smith * George Tobias as Ghazili * Anthony Caruso as Hassan *

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as Leatherface Bates * John Doucette as Kafan *

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as Tomaso * Frank Lackteen as Ceremony Leader * Artie Ortego as Indian *

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as Indian Girl * William Wilkerson as Indian Bodyguard

References

External links

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Kenneth Perkins Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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