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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Cast: George O’Brien [Dan O’Malley], Olive Borden [Lee Carlton], Lou Tellegen [Sheriff Layne Hunter], Tom Santschi [‘Bull’ Stanley], J. Farrell MacDonald [Mike Costigan], Frank Campeau [‘Spade’ Allen], Priscilla Bonner [Millie Stanley], Otis Harlan [Zach Little], Phyllis Haver [Lily], Georgie Harris [Joe Minsk], Alec Francis (Alec B. Francis) [Reverend Calvin Benson], Jay Hunt [Nat Lucas, the old prospector]; Walter Perry [Pat Monahan], George Irving [General Neville], Grace Gordon [Millie’s friend], Vester Pegg, Bud Osborne

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Executive producer, William Fox. Scenario by John Stone + [John Ford], from the adaption by John Stone of the novel Over the Border by Herman Whittaker. Assistant director, Edward O’Fearna. Photographed (cinematography) by George Schneiderman. Titles (intertitles written) by Ralph Spence and Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 22 August 1926 by Fox Film Corporation [LP23044]. Trade premiere, 13 August 1926. Released 28 August 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Ford’s last silent western. Location photography was taken in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and in the Mojave Desert, California. The film’s length was cut after its premiere.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.5652.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Theft - Criminals: Horse thieves, Outlaws - Land rushes - Law: Enforcement: Police: Sheriffs - Mine claims - Native Americans: Dakota tribe - United States: Wyoming (Jackson Hole)

Listing updated: 8 October 2022.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.5652; Everson-American pp. 250, 259; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 56; Gallagher-Ford pp. 32-34, 41, 260, 267, 498; Limbacher-Feature p. 249; Sinclair-Ford pp. 40-42, 237; Sweeney-Coming p. 101 : ClasIm-221 p. 53 : Website-AFI.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.