Under Burning Skies
About Under Burning Skies
Joe, called the Bad Man of San Fernand because drink makes him violent, had promised Emily he would stop, and he cannot. A young man from across the desert courts her. Drunk, Joe sends word that he will shoot the suitor on sight. Emily marries at once, and the couple start across the desert. Their water sack rips. Joe catches them dying of thirst, refuses them water, and rides off. He cannot forget her voice, and he turns back. The Moving Picture World synopsis ends as he returns.
Cast & crew
More about Under Burning Skies
D. W. Griffith directed Stanner E. V. Taylor's script for Biograph. Biograph released the one-reeler on 22 February 1912. Wilfred Lucas plays Joe, Blanche Sweet plays Emily, and Christy Cabanne plays her husband.
Themes
Making
Griffith made it as a Biograph drama of about one reel, with G. W. Bitzer on camera.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the Biograph short.
Preservation
A print of the one-reeler is in circulation.
Notes
- Moving Picture World printed the desert synopsis used above.
- Alfred Paget plays a friend of Emily's husband. Charles West is the bartender. Robert Harron is in the street and at a farewell party.
- Cabanne, who plays the husband, later directed.
Scenes
- Joe, drunk, sends word that he will shoot Emily's suitor on sight.
- The water sack rips on the desert.
- Joe refuses them water, rides off, and turns back.
