 A Remake of two earlier silent films and remade again in 1941 by TCF with George Montgomery, all of which audiences paid to see.Turner made a "version" of it as a TV offering.George O Brien s follow-up film was "Rainbow Trail", a direct sequel to "Riders of the Purple Sage", which takes place 20 years later with O Brien playing a young man searching for Jim Lassister(the character he played in "Riders") and Jane in their sealed valley and falling in love with the now-grown-up Fay:Seeking traces of his lost sister and her two young daughters, Jim Lassister(George O Brien)reaches the Utah ranch of Jane Withersteen(Marguerite Churchill). He offers to help save Jane and her property from the depredations of a gang of crooked officials, organized under Judge Dyer(Noah Beery.)He rescues Vern Venters(James Todd), Jane s foreman, from Oldring(STanley Fields) and Tull(Frank McGlynn, Jr), Dyer henchmen, and later turns a herd of stampeding cattle and traces Oldring and Judd to their lair. Lassister confronts Oldring, learns that his sister is dead, and that her daughters are safe. One is a little girl, Fay(Shirley Nail), at Jane s ranch.The other, Bess(Yvonne Pelletier), is a mysterious masked rider, whom Lassister and Venters later save from Oldring. Lassister goes to Judge Dyer s courtroom and makes his accusations as the Judge is about to take "legal  possession of Jane s property.Dyer draws his pistols and Lassister shoots him through both wrists. Lassister and Venters escape from town ahead of a posse, rescue Jane and Fay, but are forced to fire the Withersteen ranch to save it from falling into the hands of Tull s men. Venters and Bess, now in love, go one way, while Lassister, Jane and Fay(Lassister s niece)make their final escape by starting an avalanche which traps Tull and his men in a narrow canyon. Lassister, Jane and baby Fay prepare to make their future in the now-sealed valley. (In real life, George O Brien and leading lady Marguerite Churchill were married in 1933.)