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The Ridin’ Kid from Powder River
Also known as The Lone Outlaw in the USA; Nos Lances da Vida in Brazil; Texas bedste mand in Denmark; Le luron de l’Huron in France; Hoot Gibson, der Rächer der Berge in Germany
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5727 feet
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Hoot Gibson [Bud Watkins], Gladys Hulette [‘Miss’], Tully Marshall [‘The Spider’], Walter Long [Steve Lanning], Gertrude Astor [‘Kansas’ Lou], [?] Sidney Jordan or Sydney Jordan? (Sid Jordan) [‘Buzzard’ Davis], William A. Steele (William Steele) [‘Lightnin’ Bill Smith], Howard Truesdell (Howard Truesdale) [‘Pop’ Watkins], Frank Rice [Cal Huxley], Nelson McDowell [Luke Meggary], Fred Humes [‘The Scorpion’], Bowditch Turner [Manuel], Newton House [Bud Watkins, at age 10]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal Gibson Production]. / Scenario by Richard Schayer, Raymond L. Schrock and Rex Taylor, from an adaptation by Raymond L. Schrock and LeRoy Armstrong of the novel The Ridin’ Kid from Powder River by H.H. Knibbs (Henry Herbert Knibbs). Cinematography by Virgil E. Miller. / © 20 October 1924 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP20678]. Released 30 November 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / References to The Saddle Hawk being the working title of this film are in error; see The Saddle Hawk (1925). Some location photography was taken in Hilgrade, a ghost town in northeast Oregon. The film was released in Germany as Hoot Gibson, der Rächer der Berge in 1925. The film was released in Finland on 10 May 1926. The film was released in Denmark as Texas bedste mand on 7 June 1926. [?] The film may have been rereleased in the USA as The Lone Outlaw by Universal Pictures Corporation. The novel was subsequently filmed as The Mounted Stranger (1930).
Drama: Western.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 9 May 2020.
References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 46 : ClasIm-240 pp. 18, 20, 44 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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