• Source: Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924 film)

Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove. It was the second feature film to be photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor.




Plot


The film is based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler. When Adam Larey (Jack Holt) confronts his younger brother Guerd (James Mason) about his gambling addiction, the latter is accidentally shot. A distraught Adam, believing he has killed his own brother, flees into the desert. He later learns that Guerd was merely wounded and returns to the loving arms of beautiful Ruth Virey (Billie Dove).




Cast


Jack Holt as Adam Larey
Noah Beery as Dismukes
George Irving as Mr. Roderick Virey
Kathlyn Williams as Magdalene Virey
Billie Dove as Ruth Virey
Jim Mason as Guerd Larey (credited as James Mason)
Richard Neill as Collishaw (credited as Richard R. Neill)
James Gordon as Alex MacKay
William A. Carroll as Merryvale (credited as William Carroll)
Willard Cooley as Camp Doctor




Production


Paramount Pictures decided to make a picture entirely in Technicolor (an early version known as Process 2) following the success of the Technicolor sequences in the film The Ten Commandments (1923) and director Irvin Willat's own Heritage of the Desert (1924). Production began on January 24, 1924, and wrapped on March 9. Location shooting for the film included setting up "tent cities" in remote parts of Arizona, Nevada and California, and the production crew worked without being able to watch dailies.




Preservation status


The film is now considered to be a lost film. An original cemented Technicolor print survived into the 1960s in the hands of the film's director, Irvin Willat, who reported in 1971 that the 35 mm nitrate film had decomposed.
After Willat's death, his daughter mentioned that she remembered the day when he discovered that Wanderer of the Wasteland had decomposed. She said he went upstairs to his bedroom, closed the door and cried for three hours. His former wife, Billie Dove, starred in the picture, and he had never really come to terms with their separation after she left him for Howard Hughes.




See also


List of early color feature films




References






External links



Wanderer of the Wasteland at IMDb
Progressive Silent Film List: Wanderer of the Wasteland at silentera.com
Lobby poster; Wanderer of the Wasteland (flickr)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• James Gordon (pemeran)
• Irvin Willat
• Harry Woods (pemeran)
• George C. Hull
• Paramount Pictures
• Daftar film Paramount Pictures (1920–1929)
• Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924 film)
• Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945 film)
• Wanderer of the Wasteland
• Irvin Willat
• Anna Q. Nilsson
• Zane Grey
• George Irving (American actor)
• James Gordon (actor)
• Tanis Chandler
• Natural color