The Last Frontier (1926 film)

The Last Frontier is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by George B. Seitz and starring William Boyd, Marguerite De La Motte, and Jack Hoxie.^[1][2] The plot of this film was later reused in the 1948 Columbia Pictures serial Tex Granger.^[3]

The Last Frontier
Lobby card
Directed by	George B. Seitz
Written by	Will M. Ritchey
Based on	The Last Frontier by Courtney Ryley Cooper
Starring	William Boyd
Cinematography	Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Production company	Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	August 16, 1926 (1926-08-16)
Running time	8 reels
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Cast

• William Boyd as Tom Kirby
• Marguerite De La Motte as Beth
• Jack Hoxie as Buffalo Bill Cody
• J. Farrell MacDonald as Wild Bill Hickok
• Frank Coghlan Jr. as Buddy (credited as Junior Coghlan)
• Mitchell Lewis as Lige
• Gladys Brockwell as Cynthia Jaggers
• Frank Lackteen as Pawnee Killer
• Nipo T. Strongheart as Indian Chief (uncredited)

Preservation

A print of The Last Frontier is preserved in Archives Du Film Du CNC, Bois d'Arcy.^[4]

References

1. Munden, Kenneth White; Institute, American Film (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209695. Retrieved June 19, 2011. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
2. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Last Frontier
3. "Tex Granger (1948) - Derwin M. Abrahams - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
4. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Last Frontier

External links

• The Last Frontier at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• The Last Frontier at IMDb
• Lobby card at Getty Images