Snowed In | |
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Directed by | Spencer Gordon Bennet (credited as Spencer G. Bennet) |
Written by | Frank Leon Smith (story, scenario) |
Starring | Allene Ray Walter Miller |
Cinematography | Linwood G. Dunn |
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Distributed by | Pathé Exchange Inc. |
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Running time | 10 episodes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Snowed In is a 1926 American silent drama film serial in 10 episodes/chapters. Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, the film stars Allene Ray and Walter Miller. Aviation film historian James H. Farmer considered Snowed In as an "above average serial of the period." [1]
David Sheridan (Walter Miller), a forest ranger who teams up with Shirley Kane (Allene Ray), an adventuress to go up against a gang of bandits. The gang is controlled by the mysterious Charles Redfield, whom none of the bandits have ever actually seen.
A number of airmail robberies has taken place, and J.B. Swinnerton (Frank Austin), an airmail pilot is being blamed. Forest ranger Sheridan is out to prove who is really behind the series of spectacular armed robberies.
When all the protagonists are cut off from the outside world by a blizzard, the immense forces of nature force everyone to find a way to survive.
Filming for Snowed In took place in and around McCall, Idaho, in the Payette National Forest. Aircraft were staged out of McCall Municipal Airport in Valley County, Idaho. [1]
Aviation film historian Michael Paris in From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema compared Snowed In to other films that dealt with the airmail pilots who operated in Western United States. [2] He listed The Air Mail (1925) and Flying High (1926), The Flying Mail (1926), Wolves of the Air (1927), and Pirates of the Sky (1927) that were also examples of the sub-genre of the "modern western adventure" that often had heroes mounted on aircraft, not horses. [3] [N 1]
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