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

Cast: (unknown)

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. Intertitles by Terry Ramsaye and Richard P. Carver. Edited by Richard P. Carver and Terry Ramsaye. Music score by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released [?] April? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Documentary.

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

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Persia (Iran)

Listing updated: 23 September 2006.

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

Home video: DVD.