The Scarlet West is a 1925 American silent historical drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Robert Frazer and Clara Bow. It was distributed by the First National company.Progressive Silent Film List: The Scarlet West at silentera.comThe AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Scarlet West
This was an ambitious silent film made by an independent producer about George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was filmed on location at Dolores, Colorado.
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Preservation There are no prints of The Scarlet West surviving, which makes it a lost film.The Scarlet West at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: lost First National films - 1925The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Scarlet West A trailer survives at the Library of Congress.[trailer] - Catalog of Holding The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 159, c.1978 by The American Film Institute Some of the still photography from the production survives and is used in a documentary on local cinematographer Victor Shuler, who was one of four cameramen on the production.Victor Shuler Movie, Facebook, Retrieved December 10, 2015
See also General Custer at the Little Big Horn (1926) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) Little Big Man (1970)
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Sample of documentary on Victor Shuler, a cinematographer on The Scarlet West