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The Thundering Herd (1925 film)
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Wikipedia article
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'The Thundering Herd' is a 1925 American silent Western film, now lost.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9862/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'The Thundering Herd'][http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html 'Thundering Herd' at Arne Andersens Lost Film Files: 'Paramount Pictures' 1925] It is directed by William K. Howard and starring Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr. and Raymond Hatton. Based on Zane Grey's 1925 novel of the same name and written by Lucien Hubbard, the film is about a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30' by The American Film Institute, c.1971[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThunderingHerd1925.html 'The Thundering Herd' at silentera.com]
Cast
Context
* Jack Holt was the father of cowboy actor Tim Holt.
* Charles Ogle played the original screen Frankenstein's monster in Thomas Edison's 1910 version of 'Frankenstein', predating the Boris Karloff interpretation by more than two decades.
* The film was remade in a 1933 sound version, 'The Thundering Herd', with some of the cast (Beery and Hatton) playing the same parts but Randolph Scott playing Jack Holt's role, with Scott's hair darkened and a moustache added so as to match original footage featuring Holt that was incorporated into the later version to hold down costs.
* Noah Beery Sr. was the slightly older brother of fellow screen legend Wallace Beery and father of Noah Beery Jr. ("Rocky" in the 1970s television series 'The Rockford Files').
* Raymond Hatton was making a series of comedies as half of an unofficial comedy team with Noah Beery's brother Wallace Beery during this period.
* It was also from the novel on which this film is based that Marshall University took its unique nickname as the Thundering Herd.
* Tim McCoy directed the Native American actors.Grace Kingsley, "Historical Film Next for M'Coy," 'Los Angeles Times', October 16, 1926.
* Gary Cooper appears in a small uncredited role.
Production
The silent black-and-white film is 70 minutes (7 reels, 7,187 feet).
References
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