Main Cast: Gary Cooper, William Powell, Thelma Todd
Release Year: 1927
Country: US
Run Time: 7rl minutes
Plot
Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in this otherwise average Zane Grey Western directed by studio hack John Waters. It was Waters who, having spotted young Cooper in a screen test, recommended the lanky newcomer for Arizona Bound (1927). That film was successful enough for Paramount to conjure up Nevada, in which a once notorious gunfighter takes a respectable job on a ranch. Cooper's "Nevada" is charged with protecting the ranch owner's pretty daughter (Todd), arousing the enmity of ranch foreman William Powell, who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman leaks a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again. But along the way, he catches a gang of cattle rustlers led by -- surprise -- William Powell. Thus rehabilitated, Nevada is free to marry lovely Thelma. Despite the strong cast -- in retrospect, at least -- Nevada was considered a rather weak entry in Paramount's long Zane Grey series and actually did little to further Cooper's career prospects. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Ernie S. Adams - Cash Burridge; Ivan Christy - Cawthorne; Christian J. Frank - Sheriff of Winthrop; Guy Oliver - Sheriff of Lineville; Philip Strange - Ben Ide
Credit
John Waters - Director, Charles E. Schoenbaum - Cinematographer, Jesse Lasky - Producer, Adolph Zukor - Producer, Jack Conway - Intertitle Writer, John Stone - Screenwriter, L.G. Rigby - Screenwriter, Zane Gray - Short Story Author
