The Flaming Frontier

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The Flaming Frontier
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Film poster
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Written by Edward J. Montagne
Charles Kenyon
Raymond L. Schrock
Edward Sedgwick
Produced by Carl Laemmle
Starring Hoot Gibson
CinematographyVirgil Miller
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • September 12, 1926 (1926-09-12)
Running time
9 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)
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The Flaming Frontier ad in The Film Daily , 1926
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The Flaming Frontier is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. [1] [2]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] General Custer, who is trying to bring peace in the West of 1876, is aided by Senator Stanwood. Plotters have the son of the Senator involved with a young woman in order to have the Senator removed as an obstacle. Bob Langdon, young cadet at West Point and a friend of the Senator, takes the blame, is expelled, and joins Custer’s army. The army, misled as to the size of the Indian force, attacks them and the troops are slaughtered in Battle of the Little Bighorn. Bob, however, survives as he had been sent to obtain reinforcements.

Cast

Preservation

The film survives in an incomplete and / or abridged form. [4] [5] Footage involving a raid on a wagon train was used as stock footage in the serial The Indians Are Coming (1930). [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: The Flaming Frontier at silentera.com
  2. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Flaming Frontier
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: The Flaming Frontier". Exhibitors Herald. Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co. 25 (1): 90. March 20, 1926. Retrieved April 12, 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Flaming Frontier
  5. ↑ The Flaming Frontier at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted (Wayback Machine)
  6. ↑ Zmuda, Michael (2015). The Five Sedgwicks: Pioneer Entertainers of Vaudeville, Film and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 135. ISBN   978-0-7864-9668-6.


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