Red Clay (film)

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Red Clay
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Directed by Ernst Laemmle
Written by Charles A. Logue
Sarah Saddoris
Richard Thorpe
Ruth Todd
Produced by Carl Laemmle
Starring William Desmond
Marceline Day
Albert J. Smith
Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
April 17, 1927
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Red Clay is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Ernst Laemmle and starring William Desmond, Marceline Day and Albert J. Smith. [1]

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Synopsis

Native American John Nisheto serves with the American Army in France during World War I where he saves the life of Jack Burr, the son of a senator. Back in the United States Jack, not realising it is the same man who saved him, objects to John's courting of his sister due to his ethnicity despite John's success as a scholar and athlete. Only too late does Jack come to realise the truth after John is mortally wounded.

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References

  1. Connelly p.400

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