TUMBLEWEEDS (1925) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: King Baggot, William S. Hart
William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield
Classic western with William S. Hart as a straight-shootin' cowboy who meets a pretty girl and rides out to stake a claim in the Oklahoma Land Rush. The climactic stampede across the prairie is breathtaking: Hart, who was then about 60, did all his own riding, in what turned out to be his last movie. When the picture was reissued in 1939, Hart came back to introduce it with a soliloquy that's both maudlin and eerie: a silent screen star in his only sound film appearance, delivering what's essentially his epitaph.
