A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast: Merian Cooper (Merian C. Cooper) [himself], Ernest B. Schoedsack [himself], Marguerite Harrison [herself, a journalist], Haidar Khan [himself, chief of the Bakhtyari tribe], Lufta [himself, Haidar Khan’s son]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Cinematography by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Film editors, Richard P. Carver and Terry Ramsaye. Intertitles written by Terry Ramsaye and Richard P. Carver. Music score by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released [?] April? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Documentary.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Persia (Iran)

Listing updated: 27 July 2021.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 50; Everson-American p. 235; FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 41, 61; Gallagher-Ford p. 220; Geduld-Birth p. 38; Limbacher-Feature p. 97; Shipman-Cinema p. 86 : ClasIm-204 p. 2 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.