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Joan Crawford (center).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Winners of the Wilderness
(1927) United States of America
Color/B&W : Seven reels / 6343 feet
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Tim McCoy [Colonel Dennis O’Hara], Joan Crawford [Renée Contrecoeur], Edward Connelly (Edward J. Connelly) [General Contrecoeur], Roy D’Arcy [Captain Dumas], Louise Lorraine [Mimi], Edward Hearn [General George Washington], Tom O’Brien [Timothy], Will R. Walling (William Walling) [General Edward Braddock], Frank Currier [Governor de Vaudreuil], Lionel Belmore [Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia], Chief Big Tree (Chief John Big Tree) [Chief Pontiac], [?] Jean Arthur?, [?] Louise Emmons?
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Josephine Chippo, from a screen story by John Thomas Neville. Set design by David Townsend. Costume design by Lucia Coulter. Cinematography by Clyde De Vinna. Film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. Intertitles written by Marian Ainslee. / © 24 January 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP23585]. Released 15 January 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. / Working title: Braddock’s Defeat. Location photography on this film and War Paint (1926) were shot on the same location shooting trip. / Silent film.
Drama: Historical.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Color cinematography - George Washington - Native Americans - War: French and Indian War: 1754-1763
Listing updated: 15 April 2024.
References: Eames-MGM p. 30; Limbacher-Feature p. 278; Pitts-Hollywood pp. 129, 218, 295-296; Quirk-Crawford pp. 14-15, 44, 45 : ClasIm-279 p. 36 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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