''The Scarlet West'' is a 1925 American
silent historical drama film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and sw ...
directed by
John G. Adolfi and starring
Robert Frazer and
Clara Bow
Clara Gordon Bow (; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the ...
. It was distributed by the
First National company.
This was an ambitious silent film made by an independent producer about
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, b ...
and the
Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Nor ...
. It was filmed on location at
Dolores, Colorado
The Town of Dolores is a Statutory Town located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 885 at the 2020 United States Census.
Description
Dolores (Spanish for "sorrows" and named for the river on which it is loca ...
.
Cast
Preservation
There are no prints of ''The Scarlet West'' surviving, which makes it a
lost
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Geography
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History
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film. A trailer survives at the Library of Congress. Some of the still photography from the production survives and is used in a documentary on local cinematographer Victor Shuler, who was one of four cameramen on the production.
Victor Shuler Movie, Facebook
Retrieved December 10, 2015
See also
*'' General Custer at the Little Big Horn'' (1926)
*''They Died with Their Boots On
''They Died with Their Boots On'' is a 1941 American black-and-white Western film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Hal B. Wallis and Robert Fellows, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
The film's sto ...
'' (1941)
*''Little Big Man
Little Big Man ( Lakota: Wičháša Tȟáŋkala), or Charging Bear, was an Oglala Lakota, or Oglala Sioux, who was a fearless and respected warrior who fought under, and was distant cousin to, Crazy Horse ("His-Horse-Is-Crazy"). He opposed the 186 ...
'' (1970)
References
External links
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*Sample of documentary o
Victor Shuler
a cinematographer on ''The Scarlet West''
1925 films
American silent feature films
First National Pictures films
Films directed by John G. Adolfi
Lost American films
American black-and-white films
American historical drama films
1920s historical drama films
1925 lost films
Lost drama films
1925 drama films
1920s American films
Silent American drama films
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