1933
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The Winning of Barbara Worth is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Henry King, and starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky and Gary Cooper (who replaced Monte Blue). Based on Harold Bell Wright's novel The Winning of Barbara Worth, the film is remembered for the climactic flood sequence, depicting the 1905 formation of the Salton Sea.
Jefferson Worth, prosperous banker, takes her home to his wife; the driver, Texas Joe, the big Irishman, Pat, and the civil engineer who they call the Seer become Barbara's "uncles" and the boy, Abe Lee, her "brother".
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- Harold Bell Wright
The Winning of Barbara Worth: Directed by Henry King. With Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper, Charles Lane. While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Henry King
- 1926-10-14
Dive deep into Harold Bell Wright's The Winning of Barbara Worth with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
The Winning of Barbara Worth. Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944) This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The Shepherd of the Hills”) Strangely, the winning of Barbara Worth is a small part of the story, though she is one of the main characters.
Inspired by the Colorado River flood of 1908, Wright created the tale of a romantic triangle involving Barbara Worth, a foundling adopted by an engineer who dreams of damming the river, Willard Holmes, a young engineer who falls in love with Barbara when he comes out to help his foster father and Barbara's father complete the dam, and Abe Lee ...
May 17, 2012 · From AudioFile. The shenanigans of cutthroat businessmen reclaiming California's Imperial Valley for ranching and farming add life to this story. The struggles against the desert by both rich and poor are clearly depicted, thanks to the descriptive language of Wright.
- Harold Bell Wright
