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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	Thelma Todd (left) and Gary Cooper (center). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Gary Cooper [Nevada], Thelma Todd [Hettie Ide], William Powell [Clan Dillon], Philip Strange [Ben Ide], Ernie S. Adams [Cash Burridge], Christian J. Frank [the Winthrop sheriff], Ivan Christy [Cawthorne], Guy Oliver [the Lineville sheriff]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. Scenario by John Stone and L.G. Rigby, from the novel Nevada by Zane Grey. Cinematography by C. Edgar Schoenbaum. Intertitles written by Jack Conway [of Variety, not the director]. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 10 September 1927 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP24393]. Premiered 8 August 1927 in New York, New York. Released 10 September 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Powell’s 26th film. The novel was subsequently filmed as Nevada (1935). / Silent film.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Law: Enforcement: Police: Sheriffs - USA: Nevada

Listing updated: 3 October 2014.

References: Edmonds-Todd p. 268; Limbacher-Feature p. 171; Quirk-Powell pp. 77-78 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.