Desert Thieves

{{short description|1914 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Desert Thieves

| image = Desert Thieves 1914 newspaper.jpg

| caption = Contemporary advertisement

| director = Scott Sidney

| producer = Thomas H. Ince

| writer = Richard V. Spencer

| screenplay =

| starring = {{Plainlist|

• Charles Ray
• Gretchen Lederer
• Tsuru Aoki
• Frank Keenan
• Ernest Swallow

}}

| cinematography =

| studio = Broncho Film Company{{cite book |last1=Spehr |first1=Paul C. |last2=Lundquist |first2=Gunnar |last3=Lauritzen |first3=Einar |title=American film personnel and company credits, 1908-1920: filmographies reordered by authoritative organizational and personal names from Lauritzen and Lundquist's American film-index |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX1ZAAAAMAAJ |date=1 July 1996 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=978-0-7864-0255-7 |page=137}}

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1914|06|24|USA}}

| runtime =

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

}}

Desert Thieves is a 1914 American short silent Western film directed by Scott Sidney and featuring Charles Ray, Gretchen Lederer, Tsuru Aoki,{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry|title=A Guide to Silent Westerns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC&pg=PA116|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27858-7|page=116}}{{cite book|last1=Friar|first1=Ralph E.|last2=Friar|first2=Natasha A.|title= The only good Indian: the Hollywood gospel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ke0AAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Drama Book Specialists|isbn=978-0-910482-21-9|page=129}} Frank Keenan and Ernest Swallow in lead roles.