The Painted Desert The Painted Desert The Painted Desert is a 1931 American pre-Code film released by Pathé Exchange. Produced by E. B. Derr, it was directed by Howard Higgin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Buckingham. It starred low-budget Western stars William Boyd (in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days) and Helen Twelvetrees, and featured a young Clark Gable in his talking film debut. The picture was shot mostly on location in Arizona. Two cowboy friends, Jeff (J. Farrell MacDonald) and Cash (William Farnum), are traveling through the desert in the southwest U.S., when they come upon a baby who has been abandoned
3 Nights in the Desert film will have a US theatrical release in early 2015 followed by the DVD and VOD release. "3 Nights in the Desert" was selected to screen at the following film festivals: Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 40% of five surveyed critics gave it a positive review; the average rating was 4.8/10. Dennis Harvey of "Variety" wrote that "the characters, situations and dialogue too seldom escape cliche in Gabriel Cowan’s watchable but unmemorable feature". Stephen Farber of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "This limp drama about a band's reunion never sings or soars." 3 Nights in the Desert 3 Nights