Buffalo Bill's Last Fight Explained

Buffalo Bill's Last Fight
Director:John W. Noble
Producer:Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring:Duke R. Lee
J. Barney Sherry
Richard Walling
Marjorie Daw
Cinematography:George Cave
Studio:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Technicolor Corporation
Distributor:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country:United States
Language:Silent English Intertitles
Budget:$22,426.48[1]

Buffalo Bill's Last Fight is a 1927 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the second short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. As with the first film in the series, , this film continued the series' original intent to focus on events from American history. Ultimately, only one other short (The Heart of General Robert E. Lee) was shot which stuck to this format; the other films in the series featured historical events with a European or Asian focus.[2]

Production

The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood and at the Arapahoe Indian Reservation in Riverton, Wyoming.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 327.
  2. Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 37.
  3. Slide, p. 35.
  4. Layton and Pierce, p. 327.