Redskin (1929)

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Director:

Victor Schertzinger

Writers:

Julian Johnson (titles), Elizabeth Pickett (screenplay)

Stars:

Richard Dix, Julie Carter, Tully Marshall

Cast

Credited cast:
Richard Dix	...	Wing Foot
Julie Carter	...	Corn Blossom (as Gladys Belmont)
Tully Marshall	...	Navajo Jim
George Regas	...	Notani (as George Rigas)
Noble Johnson	...	Pueblo Jim
Jane Novak	...	Judith Stearns
Larry Steers	...	John Walton
Augustina López	...	Grandmother Yina (as Augustina Lopez)
Bernard Siegel	...	Chahi - the Medicine Man
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Padjan	...	Barrett (as Jack Duane)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

native american reservation | schoolteacher | topical | thorpe college | racism | 

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Taglines:

THE PROBLEM OF THE INDIAN WITH A WHITE EDUCATION IS HANDLED WITH SUCH POWER AND PATHOS AS TO MAKE A STORY OF GRIPPING QUALITY< AND THE SEQUENCES IN COLOUR ARE EFFECTIVE AND BEAUTIFUL. (Print Ad- Auckland Star, ((Auckland, NZ)) 7 September 1929)

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Genres:

Western | Adventure | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 February 1929 (USA)

Also Known As:

Rothaut

Filming Locations:

Acoma Pueblo, Acoma, New Mexico, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$472,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White (reels 2 & 3) (Sepiatone) Color (2-strip Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film was released with a recorded soundtrack on nine disks. According to the liner notes of the film's DVD release the picture survives intact while only disks 1, 3, and 8 are still known to exist. However, the website for the Vitaphone Project lists that copies of discs 2, 4, 5, and 7 exist in their collection.

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Alternate Versions

The American Film Institute's print of Redskin, in the Library of Congress, contains Technicolor sequences and amber tints over the rest of the scenes.

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Connections

Referenced in Ratskin (1929)

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Soundtracks

Redskin
(uncredited)
Music by J.S. Zamecnik
Lyrics by Harry D. Kerr
Sung during the opening credits by an unidentified female singer

User Reviews

Trivia

"Redskin" is included in a four disk 48 film set assembled by the National Film Preservation Foundation entitled "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934", which is available from Amazon.com and others.

In addition to being Paramount's last silent picture and their first color film (using two strip Technicolor), 'Redskin' was also partially filmed using an early 70mm process called Magnascope (see http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDRedskin.htm)

"Magnascope was a special projection technology that used a wide angle, 3 1/2 inch lens to project a dramatically enlarged image (30 by 40 feet) on a screen that was twice the size of the standard Rivoli screen (15 by 20 feet). Non-Magnascope portions of "Old Ironsides" were projected with a 7-inch lens. An illusion of gradual image enlargement was produced by the movement of black masking on the top, bottom, and sides of the screen to reveal more and more of the enlarged projected image." (http://www.in70mm.com/newsletter/1999/59/rivoli/theatre.htm) ...however the aspect ratio of Magnascope was still 4:3.

The first and only road that serves as the access to the top of Acoma Pueblo's 370' Mesa was constructed in 1929 by the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation for this production.