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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	Ralph Forbes and Dolores Del Rio. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Dolores Del Rio [Berna], Ralph Forbes [Larry], Karl Dane [Lars Peterson], Harry Carey [Jack Locasto], Tully Marshall [Salvation Jim], George Cooper [Samuel Foote, also known as ‘The Worm’], Russell Simpson [Old Swede], Emily Fitzroy [Mrs. Bulkey], Tenen Holtz [Mr. Bulkey], Cesare Gravina [Berna’s grandfather], Doris Lloyd [Locasto’s ‘recruiter’], E. Alyn Warren [the engineer], John Down [the mother’s boy], Ray Hallor [Brother Jim], Ray Gallagher [Brother Joe]; Edward Connelly [the man who brings news of gold rush to Samuel Foote], Francis Ford [the gold commissioner]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Adaptation (scenario) by Benjamin Glazer, with continuity by Benjamin Glazer and Waldemar Young, from the novel The Trail of ’98 by Robert William Service. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye. Wardrobe (costume design) by Lucia Coulter. Assistant director, Charles Dorian. Photographed (cinematography) by John Seitz (John F. Seitz). Film editor, George Hively. Titles (intertitles written) by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). Music score by David Mendoza and William Axt. Song “I Found Gold When I Found You” by William Axt (music), Hazel Mooney and Ev E. Lyn (music and lyrics). Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 29 July 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP551]. Premiered 20 March 1928 in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Northwoods.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 9 May 2021.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bohn-Light p. 179; Brownlow-Parade pp. 138, 148, 149-150, 304, 578; Shipman-Cinema p. 100 : ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.