Buffalo Bill's Last Fight

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, The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross, 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]

Buffalo Bill's Last Fight
Directed byJohn W. Noble
Written byRussell Hickson
Produced byHerbert T. Kalmus
StarringDuke R. Lee
J. Barney Sherry
Richard Walling
Marjorie Daw
CinematographyGeorge Cave
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Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 26, 1927 (1927-11-26)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent English Intertitles
Budget$22,426.48[1]

Production

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

References

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  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.
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