What to expect
Its remake history shows a story remaining commercially useful even after one screen version disappeared, separating the survival of a narrative from the survival of a film.
How to ease in
Use this page to compare versions and absence, not as a viewing substitute. Later remakes may illuminate adaptation choices but cannot reproduce this film’s performances or cutting.
Heads-up
A lost silent adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel, directed by Herman C. Raymaker and later remade in both 1933 and 1947.
A story can return while a particular film stays missing. I find that useful: adaptation preserves a route, not the footsteps of everyone who once travelled it.
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A story can return while a particular film stays missing. I find that useful: adaptation preserves a route, not the footsteps of everyone who once travelled it.
— Momo
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