The Squaw Man and...The Squaw Man!

[buskeat]

Warner Archive Collection has a double feature up for pre-order, coming January 10th, the first and third screen versions of The Squaw Man. (I seem to recall the 1918 version is lost, correct?)

http://www.wbshop.com/Double-Feature-Th ... ARCHIVEPRE

Studio: MGM
Screen Aspect: 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
Run Time: 181 minutes
Packaging Type: Amaray Case
Synopsis:
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man is a first and a last. The 1914 version is widely regarded as the first feature film made in Hollywood. And DeMille makes the final film under his MGM contract with a 1931 Talkie of the oft-told tale (DeMille lensed a second silent version in 1918) about a British outcast in the West, his Native American bride and events that shatter their happiness. The films vary greatly. The first is packed with events – a horse race, a brawl with a Scotland Yarder, a shipboard fire, a night in New York – that foreshadow DeMille’s ambitious narrative reach. The second hones in on the tender and ultimately heartbreaking familial relationship. Same story. Same filmmaker. A rare chance to experience them in different ways.

[Richard M Roberts]

Warner Archive Collection has a double feature up for pre-order, coming January 10th, the first and third screen versions of The Squaw Man. (I seem to recall the 1918 version is lost, correct?)

One reel of the 1918 version survives.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

[silentmovies742]

Interesting that they are releasing such an early feature - if memory serves me correctly they have concentrated on post-1922 films up until now

[Jim Reid]

Since MGM would have bought the remake rights in '31, does that mean they might have some elements on the earlier version we haven't seen?

[R Michael Pyle]

Just recently watched both of these versions, and I was pleasantly pleased with both, but especially the 1931 version. It's a good film, certainly not great, but really good. The only problem with my version of the 1914 film is that my copy's in really bad shape, and there are a couple of scenes at the beginning which just don't seem to be totally understandable because - I think - there are seemingly some scenes, especially of exposition, missing. Maybe those scenes are in the Warner Archive release. Then again, maybe not. I'll bite and buy this just for the cause.