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In the Days of Buffalo Bill
(1922-1923) United States of America
B&W : Serial / 18 chapters / 37 reels
Directed by Edward Laemmle

Cast: Art Acord [Art Taylor], Duke R. Lee (Duke Lee) [Buffalo Bill Cody], George A. Williams [Calvert Carter], Jay Morley [Lambert Ashley], Otto Nelson [Alden Carter], Pat Harmon [Gaspard], Jim Corey [Quantrell], Burton C. Law [Allen Pinkerton], William P. Devaull (William De Vaull) [Edwin M. Stanton], Joel Day [Abraham Lincoln], J. Herbert Frank [Abraham Lincoln], Clark Comstock [Thomas C. Durant], Charles Colby [William H. Seward], Joe Hazelton (Joseph Hazelton) [Gideon Welles], John W. Morris (Tex Driscoll) [General Ulysses S. Grant], Lafayette McKee (Lafe McKee) [General Robert E. Lee], G.B. Phillips [Montgomery Blair], Henry Myers (Harry Myers) [Andrew Johnson], Ruth Royce [Aimee Leonard], Chief Lightheart [Sitting Bull], William Knight [Jack Casement], Elsie Greeson [Louise Frederici], Buck Conners [Hank Tabor], M.K. Wilson [Tim O’Mara], William Moran [John Wilkes Booth], Silvertip Baker [General Grenville M. Dodge], Charles Newton [Major North], Alfred Hollingsworth [Chief Justice Chase], Marion Fedecha [Andrew Johnson, as a boy], Lester Cuneo, Helen Farnum, Joe Miller, [?] Dorothy Wood or Dorothy Woods?

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Carl Laemmle. Scenario by Robert Dillon, from a screen story by Robert Dillon. Cinematography by Herbert J. Kirkpatrick (Herbert Kirkpatrick) and Howard Oswald. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / 18 chapters (two reels each): [1] “Bonds of Steel,” released 11 September 1922 (three reels); [2] “In the Enemy’s Hands,” released 18 September 1922; [3] “The Spy,” released 25 September 1922; [4] “The Sword of Grant and Lee,” released 2 October 1922; [5] “The Man of the Ages,” released 9 October 1922; [6] “Prisoners of the Sioux,” released 16 October 1922; [7] “Shackles of Fate,” released 23 October 1922; [8] “The Last Shot,” released 30 October 1922; [9] “From Tailor to President,” released 6 November 1922; [10] “Empire Builders,” released 13 November 1922; [11] “Perils of the Plains,” released 20 November 1922; [12] “The Hand of Justice,” released 27 November 1922; [13] “Trails of Peril,” released 4 December 1922; [14] “The Scarlet Doom,” released 11 December 1922; [15] “Men of Steel,” released 18 December 1922; [16] “The Brink of Eternity,” released 25 December 1922; [17] “A Race to the Finish,” released 1 January 1923; [18] “Driving the Golden Spike,” released 8 January 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Katchmer-Eighty p. 6 notes the similarity of the cast list to that of The Moon Riders (1920) and speculates that this may be a reissue of that serial.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Colonel William F. Cody - Serials

Listing updated: 3 May 2020.

References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 125, 126; Katchmer-Eighty p. 6; Lahue-Continued pp. 100, 228, 285; Pitts-Hollywood pp. 81-82; Watson-Keystone p. 40; Weaver-Twenty p. 27 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.

 
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