Forlorn River (1937) Online
"Nevada" (Buster Crabbe) and "Weary" Pierce (Syd Saylor)hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens), and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner (Lew Kelly). U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward (Purnell Pratt)is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine (William Duncan) and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine (June Martel), much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide (John Patterson). "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge. Wil the aid of the camp cook, Millie Moran (Ruth Warren) they escape and start in pursuit of Setter and his gang.
| Cast overview: | |||
 | Buster Crabbe | - | Nevada (as Larry Crabbe) |
 | June Martel | - | Ina Blaine |
 | Harvey Stephens | - | Les Setter |
 | John Patterson | - | Ben Ide |
 | Syd Saylor | - | 'Weary' Pierce |
 | William Duncan | - | Blaine |
 | Ray Bennett | - | Bill Hall - Henchman (as Raphael Bennett) |
| Ruth Warren | - | Millie Moran - the Cook |
| Lew Kelly | - | Sheriff Jim Henry Warner |
 | Chester Conklin | - | Sheriff Alec Grundy |
 | Barlowe Borland | - | Dad - the Bank Cashier |
| Larry Lawrence | - | Ed |
 | Lee Powell | - | Duke - Henchman |
| Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | - | Sam - Henchman (as Oscar G. Hendrian) |
This is one of 20 Zane Grey stories, filmed by Paramount in the 1930s, which it sold to Favorite Films for re-release, circa 1950-52. The failure of Paramount, the original copyright holder, to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
When this film was re-released nationally in 1951 by Favorite Films, it was often shown in tandem with the re-release of _Desert Gold_ (1936) (QV).
Film debut of Clayton Moore.
Although this film was re-released theatrically under its original title, when it was sold to television the title was changed to "River of Destiny" most likely to protect the theatrical re-release which was still in progress. It was first telecast in New York City Sunday 17 January 1954 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Detroit Saturday 22 May 1954 on WXYZ (Channel 7), and in Los Angeles Sunday 1 August 1954 on KRCA (Channel 4); in San Francisco it was first broadcast Thursday 16 June 1955 on KPIX (Channel 5).
The 20 Zane Grey stories sold by Paramount to Favorite Films for theatrical re-release, and then to Unity Television Corporation for television broadcast are as follows: The Light of Western Stars/Winning the West (1930), Fighting Caravans/Blazing Arrows (1931), Heritage of the Desert/When the West Was Young (1932), The Mysterious Rider/The Fighting Phantom (1933), The Thundering Herd/Buffalo Stampede (1933), Man of the Forest/Challenge of the Frontier (1933), To the Last Man/Law of Vengeance (1933), Wagon Wheels/Caravans West (1934), Rocky Mountain Mystery/The Fighting Westerner (1935), Drift Fence/Texas Desperadoes (1936), Desert Gold/Desert Storm (1936), The Arizona Raiders/Bad Men of Arizona (1936), Arizona Mahoney/Arizona Thunderbolt (1936), Forlorn River/River of Destiny (1937), Thunder Trail/Thunder Pass (1937), Born to the West/Hell Town (1937), The Mysterious Rider/Mark of the Avenger (1938), Heritage of the Desert/Heritage of the Plains (1939), Knights of the Range/Bad Men of Nevada (1940), and The Light of Western Stars/Border Renegade (1940).