TUMBLEWEEDS (1925 FILM)

'''Tumbleweeds''' is a 1925 film produced, co-directed and starred by William S. Hart. It features cowboy Don Carver (Hart) as a "tumbleweed" (i.e., a drifter) that decides to settle down after falling in love with Molly Lassiter (played by Barbara Bedford). Carver decides to get in on the the Cherokee Strip land rush but when he's arrested and parted from his new love, he's in danger of missing the big race. The climax called the "biggest stampede in American history" features the some of the most spectacular Western action scenes ever filmed.The Ponca City News. "Silent Film Organist To Play The Poncan Theatre for 'Tumbleweeds'" September 6, 2007. Set in Caldwell, Kansas on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, this movie is arguably the first to take place during the Land Run of 1889. Its depiction is said to have influenced Oscar-winning 1931 western ''Cimarron''.

Dennis James, a silent film musician who, according to Carl Bennett, has played "a pivotal role in the international revival of silent films presented with live music."Carl Bennett, Dennis James on SilentEra.com. Accessed online 16 January 2006. has been commissioned to perform the score to ''Tumbleweeeds'' in a live performance in 2007 at the Poncan Theater in Ponca City, Oklahoma as part of a celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of Oklahoma Statehood.

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