The Winning of Barbara Worth

The Winning of Barbara Worth
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Directed by	Henry King
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn
Written by	Frances Marion
Based on	The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright
Starring	Ronald Colman Vilma Bánky Gary Cooper
Music by	Ted Henkel
Cinematography	George Barnes Thomas Branigan Gregg Toland
Edited by	Viola Lawrence
Production company	The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 14, 1926 (1926-10-14) (USA)
Running time	89 minutes 9 reels, 8,757 ft
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a 1926 American Western silent film directed by Henry King and starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, and Gary Cooper (replacing Monte Blue, busy with Ernst Lubitsch's So This Is Paris) in his first feature role.

Based on the novel The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright, the film is about an engineer who vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter while building an irrigation system for a Southern California desert community. The movie was filmed in California's Imperial Valley and in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. The film is notable for the climactic flood sequence, depicting the 1905 formation of the Salton Sea.