Bernard Siegel (left) and Richard Dix.     Photo: Kevin Brownlow collection; courtesy Le Giornate del     Cinema Muto.

Cast: Richard Dix [Wing Foot], Gladys Belmont [Corn Blossom], Tully Marshall [Navajo Jim], George Rigas [Chief Notani], Noble Johnson [Pueblo Jim], Jane Novak [Judith Stearns], Larry Steers [John Walton], Augustina López [Grandmother Yina], Bernard Siegel [Chahi, the medicine man]; Joseph W. Giard [the commissioner], Philip Anderson [Wing Foot, age nine], Lorraine Rivero [Corn Blossom, age six], George Walker [Pueblo Jim, age fifteen], Jack Duane (Jack Padjan) [Barrett], Andrew J. Callaghan [Anderson], Myra Lynch [the laughing singer], Pauline Garon [a party girl], Ben Hall [student], Lincoln Stedman [student], Paul Panzer, Walter Reed

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Associate producer J.G. Bachmann. Screen Play (scenario) by Elizabeth Pickett, from a story by Elizabeth Pickett. Assistant director Henry Hathaway. Color photography (Technicolor cinematography) by Ray Rennahan and Edward T. Estabrook. Photographed (black & white cinematography) by Edward Cronjager + [Harry Hallenberger]. Titles (intertitles) by Julian Johnson. Edited by Otto Lovering. Musical score by J.S. Zamecnik. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 23 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Western.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute collection) [35mm Technicolor and color-toned positive]; the soundtrack discs for reels 2, 4-7, 9 are presumed lost.

Keywords: Color cinematography - Native Americans: Navaho tribe, Pueblo tribe - Schools - Synchronized sound film - Track and field - USA: Arizona

Listing updated: 4 October 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Basten-Technicolor pp. 41, 170; Everson-American pp. 226, 345; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 77; Sweeney-Coming pp. 141, 142 : ClasIm-221 p. 54; ClasIm-224 p. 55; ClasIm-226 p. 43; ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.