The Pride of Palomar
About The Pride of Palomar
Don Mike Farrell (Forrest Stanley) comes home from army service in Siberia and finds his father dead and the Rancho El Palomar in the hands of John Parker (Alfred Allen). Parker is working to turn the ranch over to Okada (Warner Oland), a Japanese potato baron who wants it for a colonization scheme. Mike falls in love with Parker's daughter Kay (Marjorie Daw). Okada attacks Mike and wounds him. Kay nurses him, and with a ruse and a good horse he gets the ranch back.
Cast & crew
More about The Pride of Palomar
Frank Borzage directed the script by Grant Carpenter, Peter B. Kyne, and John Lynch, from Kyne's 1921 novel. Cosmopolitan leased Rancho Guajome and started in early August 1922, and Paramount released the film on November 26, 1922. William Randolph Hearst is the copyright claimant, and the intertitles carry a themed background.
Themes
Background
The plot turns on an eastern holder trying to sell a California ranch to a Japanese agent for colonization by Japanese farmers, a scheme the returning veteran blocks.
Look
Chester A. Lyons photographed the ranch and mission locations. The back of the Guajome ranch building was stuccoed for the picture, and that stucco was still visible a century later.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A print is in the Library of Congress collection.
Notes
- Forrest Stanley is Don Mike Farrell. Marjorie Daw is Kay Parker. Tote Du Crow is Pablo. James O. Barrows is Father Dominic. Warner Oland is Okada.
- Publicity noted that Helen Hunt Jackson had stayed at Rancho Guajome while gathering material for Ramona.
- A few scenes show Pullman porters and dining cars of the 1920s.
Scenes
- Mike comes back from Siberia to a dead father and a ranch he does not hold.
- Okada wounds him, and Kay Parker nurses him.
- He takes the ranch back with a ruse and a good horse.
Influenced by
- Peter B. Kyne's 1921 novel The Pride of Palomar
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The pride of Palomar (1922).webm)
