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Credits
and
Review
below
Picture
1925,
black
and
white,
silent
Reviews: The
only
review
of
this
movie
I
have
read
is
by
Mordaunt
Hall,
New
York
Times,
September,
1925. He
doesn't
think
very
highly
of
the
movie. "To
an
unappreciative
person,
such
as
we
may
be,
this
photoplay
is
extremely
fortunate
in
gaining
a
place
for
itself
in
the
midnight
sun
of
old
Broadway."
"In
an
utterly
unashamed
manner,"
Hall
tells
readers,
"the
title
writer
shouts
'Dawn'
and
'Morning'
at
you
from
the
screen. The
hero,
'Big
Boy'
Morgan,
would
rather
lose
Las
Rosas
Ranch,
about
which
there
is
so
much
squabbling,
than
break
Nora Shea's
heart."
"Raymond
Hatton
acts
the
role
of
an
invalid,
Charlie
Grey,
who
is
introduced
wearing
voluminous
plus
fours,
which
one
would
imagine
would
mean
sudden
death
in
the
wide
open
spaces. Mr.
Grey
looks
naturally
seedy,
but
in
the
last
chapter
of
the
picture
he
regains
his
health
and
succeeds
in
capturing
the
villain,
after
having
fallen
into
the
river. He
does
this
feat
in
an
original,
but
hardly
possible,
way. The
red-hot
villain
has
two
guns,
and
he
imagines
that
Grey
is
going
to
gurgle
his
last
in
the
water. Grey,
however,
steals
up
the
slippery
bank
and
pokes
his
forefinger
from
behind
into
the
hefty
man's
rigs,
with
the
result
that
the
scoundrel
believes
that
a
gun
is
sticking
into
him. He
hold
up
his
hands,
and
without
resistance,
marches
off
to
his
doom."
"Here
we
have
also
the
familiar
threat
of
foreclosing
on
a
ranch
by
an
individual
known
as
Holdbrook,
who
does
not
find
Nora
(Bessie
Love)
displeasing
in
appearance. Nora
is
told
by
a
sycophantic
fat
man
that
'if
she
plays
her
cards
right'
she
stands
a
very
good
chance
of
marrying Holdbrook. So,
not
wishing
to
marry
this
scamp,
she
trumps
her
partner's
act."
Another
review
of
this
movie
appeared
in
Film
Daily,
October
11,
1925,
but
I
have
not
yet
obtained
a
copy.
Release: Paramount
Pictures
Production:
A
Victor
Fleming
Production
Director: Victor
Fleming
Writing/Screenplay:
Adapted
from
a
story
by
Harold
Bell
Wright
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Bessie
Love |
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Warner
Baxter |
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Raymond
Hatton |
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Walter
McGrail |
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Carl
Stockdale |
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Billy
Eugene |
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James
Farley |
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Charles
Stevens |
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Valentina
Zemina |
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George
Kuwa |
Availability: This is considered to be one of
thousands of movies forever lost. No copy is known to exist.
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