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Howard Anderson Idaho Film Archive
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Catalogue
Films, Videos, Tapes, "Paper" and Links
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Feature Films Filmed in Idaho
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TALKIES
Come and Get It (1936)
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
Northwest Passage (1940)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
Sun Valley Serenade(1941)
The Unconquered (1947)
That Wonderful Urge (1948)
The Duchess of Idaho (1950)
The Wild North (1951)
Bus Stop (1956)
Don't Cry Wolf (1960)
Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
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THE COWPUNCHER (1915)
Director:
William Johnson Jossey
Writer:
William Johnson Jossey
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
6-8/60 min./black & white/silent
Release Date:
November 1915
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Paul Fisher, costumed for his role in The Cowpuncher (Idaho Falls, 1915).
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Cast:
C.M. Griffin, Claudia Louise, Maria Ascaraga
Portraying themselves:
Don Williams, Lee Caldwell, Roy Jones, Charles & Frank Irwin, Dell Blanchette,
Hugh Chambers, Little Bull, Chief Red Wing
With Blackfoot, Shoshone, Lemhi, Bannock, Sioux & Cheyenne Indians
Idaho locations used in film:
Idaho Falls and vicinity
Summary from AFI holdings:
"Western. Bucking broncos, wild horse racing, herds of cattle and buffalo, Indians and soldiers are included in this film for which no plot information has been found."
Summary from Idaho information:
Filming naturally caused a stir around Eagle Rock (now known as Idaho Falls) when the production company arrived the week of August 13, 1915, and the local newspaper, Idaho Register, reported that the company would be staying for six weeks. The only known surviving person involved with the production of the film, Paul Fisher, was 12 at the time (see Video below). The film was shot in conjunction with the War Bonnet Round-Up, a rodeo, so that performers and parts of the world-famous rodeo could be included in the film.
SMITC holdings of film:
None. Film is presumed lost.
Related Materials:
Correspondence:
Letters written by Paul Fisher regarding his memories of the event.
Pamphlet:
Dale, Afton Boam. History of the War Bonnet Round-Up 1911-1967.
Photographs/Stills:
Photo of Paul Fisher and dog Spot, riding horse Duke.
Video:
Unedited 3/4" video interview with Paul Fisher by Tom Trusky in Idaho Falls.
Reviews:
Motion Picture News. 25 October 1915 p.80
Motion Picture World. 9 October 1915 p. 269
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TOLD IN THE HILLS (1919)
Also known as Broder mot Broder {Brother Against Brother}(1921) in Sweden and Otshelnik {The Hermit}(1925) in former Soviet Union
http://www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/hoxie.htm
for Jack/Hart Hoxie (actor)
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/james-wong-howe.htm
http://www.oscars.org/mhl/sc/howe_74.html
for James Wong Howe (cinematographer)
Cast:
Robert Warwick as Jack Stuart/Genesee Jack
Ann Little as Rachel Hardy
Tom Forman as Charles Stuart
Monte Blue as Kalitan
Margaret Loomis as Talapa
Eileen Percy as Tillie Hardy
Hart Hoxie as Henry Hardy
Nez Perce Indians as Kootenai Indians
Idaho locations used in film:
Kamiah, Lawyer's Canyon, and vicinity; Selway River
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In Lawyer's Canyon (see Retold in the Hills for Nez Perce and Hollywood identities).
Hart (Jack) Hoxie photo sent to Idaho friends.
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Summary from AFI information:
"Western. A Kentucky woman's dying request that her sons care for her ward, Ann Belleau, is disregarded by the younger brother, Charles Stuart, who makes love to her and then marries another woman in New Orleans. The elder brother Jack marries Ann so that her child will have a name, but then leaves her his possessions and becomes a prospector and guide in Montana. Although known as "Genessee Jack," and wanting to keep away from white women, Jack meets Rachel Hardy and they fall in love….After a young Kootenai chieftain is accidentally killed bringing a message of good will to the U.S. Cavalry, Jack, unjustly imprisoned, escapes with Rachel's help. He then leads the soldiers, who are surrounded by Indians in a mine, through a hidden tunnel to safety. Although wounded, Jack marries Rachel, after Charles repenitently tells of Ann's death."
Summary from Idaho information:
Filming began around May 3, 1919, and most of the film company left late evening on May 31, 1919 according to the Lewiston Morning Tribune. Told in the Hills is noteworthy in that its depiction of Native Americans was sympathetic, and the cordial relationship between cast members and Nez Perce Indians who were used in the film. The Tribune, reports both director and the film's star Warwick, not only spoke glowingly about the Nez Perce and their attitudes toward filming, but also both Melford and Warwick were "adopted" by the tribe. Idahoan Hart Hoxie (Henry Hardy), also known as Jack Hoxie, became a famous silent movie star and it was he who suggested the area for filming. Recent research has uncovered the fact that Hart/Jack Hoxie killed his half-brother Earl Stone. Some believed it to be motivated by drink, others believed it was motivated by Hoxie's anger that Stone was involved with Hoxie's first wife. However, Hoxie was never charged or tried for murder. Also of interest is that James Wong Howe, an Oscar award winning cinematographer for both Hud and The Rose Tattoo, worked on this film (evidenced by the 1919 Photoplay News Supplement that shows Howe and director Melford in discussion on location).
SMITC holdings of film:
Two (approx. 20 min. each) of four 35 mm. reels, with Russian intertitles; 3/4" transfer.
Related Materials:
Display:
Traveling display on making of the film
Hoxie Related Material:
Hoxie films on video: Backfire (VHS), The Border Sheriff (VHS), The Desert Rider (VHS), Wolf Tracks (VHS) Trouble Busters (VHS), and Gold (VHS).
Jack Hoxie Memoirs & Interview:
Reel-to-reel audio interview of Jack Hoxie by Lila Blythe. Also Matinee Idol: Remembered (VHS), a biography of Jack Hoxie done by WKY-TV in Oklahoma around 1960 (focus is on Hoxie's life after leaving Idaho).
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Interview:
Audio/cassette interview with Nez Perce Lynus Walker Jr., who was alive during the filming and was an extra.
Photographs/Stills:
Approximately 200 stills (many courtesy of Kevin Brownlow) from and photos of the making of film, and cast members (including Nez Perce Indians). Also studio shots of Melford, Warwick, Little, Lasky, Al Hilton, Ritchey, Howe, and Hoxie. Also photographs of Gosfilmofond, the Soviet archive, where the surviving reels were found.
Photoplay Screen Supplement:
An almost 9 minute 16 mm. black & white film supplement that has four feature stories about early Hollywood, one of which concerns the making of Told in the Hills.
Play:
Copy of New York prompt script for Genesse of the Hills, play based on novel by Mariah Ellis Ryan. Also: February 23, 1907 New York Time Theatre Review of Genesse of the Hills.
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Lynus Walker, Jr.
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ReTold in the Hills:
3/4" video documentary on making and recovery of Told in the Hills filmed in 1988. Also ReTold in the Hills, 3/4" with promos. There is also a published account of the making and recovery of the film under the same name. This published item is for sale. Order
Scenario/Synopsis:
Told in the Hills synopsis (copy).
Screenplay:
Told in the Hills screenplay (copy). Includes production note with information on film, such as director, star, etc., as well as the script cost ($1,342.31), purchase price of the film itself ($20,000.00) on March 7, 1919.
Translation:
Two cassette tapes with translation of Russian intertitles; four typed pages of written translation by Alexandra Skirmants.
Reviews and Related Articles:
Motion Picture World. 20 September 1919 p. 2469
Moving Picture News. 20 September 1919 p. 1865
New York Moving Theatre. 14 September 1919
Variety. 12 September 1919 p. 52
Wid's Daily. 10 August 1919 p. 23
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MISS LEWISTON (1922)
Director:
Allen H. Hilton
Writer:
Lester Robinson
Photographer:
Ed Schmedeka
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
20 minutes (20,000 feet)/black & white/silent
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Al Hilton behind his camera (Idaho, circa 1918).
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Cast:
Elma Moore as Catheria Lewis
Walter Ramer as Dwight King
J. Gipson Stalker as Allan Woody
Jeanette Loft as Vera Thomas
Lucile Philard as Esther Thomas
A.A. Seaborg, Sr. as G.E. Thomas
Mrs. B.F. Savage as Mrs. G.E. Thomas
Jimmy Blake as Jimmy Thomas
Olive McBeth as Miss Lewis' landlady
Lewiston, Idaho, city officals and police as themselves
Idaho location used in film:
Lewiston
Summary from Idaho information:
The first Idaho produced "indie" was filmed in June 1922 and apparently took only ten days. Approximately some 300 people were involved in making the film, many from Lewiston and Clarkston, Washington. According to The Spokesman-Review, the star (Emma Moore) was selected by "voters"--purchasers of tickets to theaters owned by director Hilton.
SMITC holdings of film:
None. Film is presumed lost
Related Materials:
Correspondence:
Concerning director Al Hilton with various people, including his son Jerry Hilton.
News Clippings:
Of Al Hilton and his success as a theater owner (various Idaho newspapers).
Photographs:
Studio photographs of Al Hilton
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THE GRUB-STAKE (1922)
Also known as The Romance of Lost Valley (Great Britain) and The Golden Yukon (re-cut and released in the USA in 1927).
Director:
Nell Shipman and Burt Van Tuyle
Writer:
Nell Shipman
Photographer:
Joseph B. Walker and Robert S. Newhard
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
8,061 ft./100 minutes (21 fps.)/silent/with tinting instructions
Release Date:
February 18, 1923
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Nell Shipman preparing for final scenes of The Grub-Stake in Priest Lake.
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Links:
www.utoronto.ca/shipman
for Nell
Cast:
Nell Shipman as Faith Diggs
Walt Whitman as "Skipper" Diggs
Alfred Allen as Mark Leroy
Lillian Leighton as Dawson Kate
George Barrell as Michael Murry, "Malamute Mike"
Hugh Thompson as Jeb, Kate's son
C.K. Van Auker as The Mountie
Ah Wing as Leroy's Chinese servant
Brownie, the bear as himself
Idaho location used in film:
Priest Lake
Summary from AFI information:
"Northwest melodrama. Faith Diggs, who is caring for her invalid father, meets Mark Leroy, an Alaskan gambler, and he entices her to the Klondike through a fake marriage. She learns the truth about her marriage from Dawson Kate, a dancehall woman, and with her father flees into the wilderness…Faith encounters wild animals and cares for her now delirious father until Kate's son rescues them. A romance develops between them, and when they find the mine, Mark tries to jump the claim but is repulsed and killed by a fall."
Summary from Idaho information:
Nell Shipman, an early silent film director, producer, writer, and actress had been shunned by Hollywood and moved to Priest Lake, Idaho to open her own studio, Lionhead Lodge. She eventually went bankrupt and closed her studio, never returning to Idaho. She is now noted for not only being an early woman director, producer, writer and actress, but also for her concern for animal actors and the environment as well as writing strong, independent roles for women.
SMITC holdings of film:
16mm. black & white in two parts with British intertitles and tinting instructions removed; 16 mm. copy; 3/4" copy with tinting instructions intact..
Related Materials:
Albertsons Library Archives: Nell Shipman at Priest Lake: a casebook for composition (articles and books written by Shipman). Nell Shipman: Adventures at Priest Lake by Joyce M. Miller (activity and coloring book). Nell Shipman files put in archives include correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, grant applications and other materials related to Tom Trusky's research on Shipman. Papers of Nell Shipman, including correspondence, proposed film scripts, press clippings, photos and other related papers; Barry Shipman, Nell Shipman's son, also has donated other material written by his mother including scripts, scenarios and story outlines for motion pictures, serials and television programs
Autobiography:
The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart. 1987; 3rd rev. ed., 2001. (This Shipman title and numerous others are for sale and may be found in the PDF listing in the Shipman section of this website.)
Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman: Selected Correspondence & Writings, 1912-1970. (2003). See PDF listing.
Nell Shipman films:
All films except the initial title are now on DVD. See PDF for information.
Films made by and with Nell Shipman in collection:
One Hundred Years of Mormonism (1912). Fragment of film with script by Shipman (on DVD only).
Back to God's Country (1919)
16 mm. original and copy; 3/4" transfer. One of the film's photographers was Joseph Walker, an Academy Award-winning cameraman who later worked with Frank Capra. This item is for sale. Order
A Bear, A Boy and A Dog (1920)
16 mm. print and two 3/4" (one copy with music), originally titled Saturday Off.
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The Light on Lookout (1923).
Part of Shipman's "Little Dramas of the Big Places" series. 16 mm. original (negative) and copy of positive print in both 16 mm. and 3/4"
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Something New (1920).
Both 16 mm. and 3/4" in different versions. 16 mm. in both original and copy with partially corrected editing by UCLA. 3/4" Includes a restored version done by National Archives of Canada that has different tints and edits, but is sized for television. Also a 3/4" version that includes a Joan Benny interview and correctly edited and tinted with original music by Craig Purdy.
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The Story of Mr. Hobbes. (1947; Talkie)
VHS copy of 5 remaining reels (print in BFI).
Trail of the North Wind (1923).
Another part of Shipman's "Little Dramas of the Big Places" series. 16 mm. original and copy, 3/4" and VHS transfer of copy.
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Clip from Trail of the North Wind (2 minutes)
download (QuickTime movie; 10 MB) or streaming file (Real Video)
Dreena (Nell) and Billy, the Boy (Barry Shipman, in his last film appearance) race to save Billy's grandfather, who has accidentally trapped himself in one of his bear traps. The script called for the two rescuers to speed across the frozen Priest Lake in Dreena's dog sled, only to hit a thin patch of ice and fall through it. After the first long shot of the accident, Nell informed her son they needed a second, medium shot. Reluctantly, and only after drying out in front of a big bonfire on shore behind the camera, did Barry agree to get back into the frigid water. Little did he know that his mother, to make the scene more dramatic, was going to hold on to his belt beneath the water so the Boy would really have to struggle to get on solid ice! (Look closely, and you will see Nell holding Barry in.) Barry swore he would never act in another of his mother's movies--an oath he kept.
Newspaper Articles:
Articles written in The Dramatic Mirror of the Stage & Motion Picture, about Nell Shipman in the early part of her career, from 1916 and 1917. Includes reviews of plays, photos and achievements of writing popular scenarios for various film companies.
Play: Between Pictures (1991)
VHS original of one-woman play about Nell Shipman, written by Barry Shipman, her son and starring her granddaughter, Nina Shipman.
Score: Something New
Original score composed by Craig Purdy for 1992 restoration of film.
Video: The Making of The Grub-Stake,
3/4" Boise State University production that is scripted by Barry Shipman, narrated by Nina Shipman, Nell Shipman's granddaughter and Lani Beth Waldrop, Nina's daughter. Includes the song "The Ballad of Nell Shipman," written by Barry Shipman and sung by Noel Shipman, Nell Shipman's grandson.
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THE TORNADO (1924)
Director:
King Baggot
Writer:
Grant Carpenter
Photographers:
Bert Glennon, Roland Price
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
7/6, 375 ft./black & white/silent
Release Date:
New York premiere December 13, 1924; released January 4, 1925
Links:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007215/
for King Baggot (director)
Cast:
House Peters as Tornado
Ruth Clifford as Ruth Travers
Richard Tucker as Ross Travers
Snitz Edwards as "Peewee"
Dick Sutherland as "Gorilla"
Jackie Morgan as "Hurricane"
Kate Price as Emily
Charlotte Stevens as Molly Jones
Fred Gamble as Pa Jones
Caroline Irwin as Ma Jones
James Welsh as "Drunk"
Idaho locations used in film:
St. Maries and vicinity
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Margaret Morgan and son, Jackie Morgan ("Hurricane") in Idaho for the filming of "The Tornado."
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Summary from AFI information:
"Melodrama. Source: Lincoln J. Carter, The Tornado: a Spectacular Comedy Drama in Five Acts (c26 Oct 1981). A lumber camp foreman, known as Tornado, encounters Ruth, his former sweetheart, and Ross Travers, whom Tornado thought to be his best friend. He learns that Ross tricked Ruth into marrying him with the story of Tornado's death in the war and that their marriage is an unhappy one for Ruth. Threatened with his just deserts if he should further mistreat Ruth, Ross leaves with his wife on a train, which is tossed from a bridge by a tornado. The hero arrives in time to rescue Ruth from the swirling water, but his efforts to save Ross are in vain."
Summary from Idaho information:
The St. Maries Gazette-Record reported that filming would begin on June 17, 1924, and would last from two to three weeks. The same article further reported that while the headquarters of the film company would be in St. Maries, they would film action scenes at St. Maries, St. Joe, Marble Creek and Coeur d'Alene. Another article on June 19, 1924, recounted that 12 "well known and experienced" lumberjacks would be extras in the film, paid $10 per day for their work which would last seven to ten days. Filming ended on July 3, 1924.
SMITC holdings of film:
35 mm. copy (6 reels); VHS (keystoned) copy of film used for translation process.
Related Materials:
Correspondence:
From Marguerite Sheffler, daughter of Jackie Morgan about her father.
Album of photos, clippings and letters by and about House Peters (compiled by his son, House Peters, Jr.).
Premiere:
VHS copy of 80 minute reception and premiere of The Tornado on May 14, 1997 at the Rena Theatre in Kellogg, Idaho. Also correspondence, photos and news clippings related to this event.
Program:
Cinecon 34 program of the 34th Annual Festival of Society for Cinephiles, September 3-7, 1998. The Tornado was shown during this festival and information about the discovery of the film is on page 25.
Soundtrack:
VHS copy of soundtrack for the film.
Translation:
Of intertitles from Dutch to English by Driek Zirinsky.
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FRIVOLOUS SAL (1925)
Also known as The Flame of Love
Director:
Victor Schertzinger
Writer:
J.K. McDonald
Photographer:
Chester Lyons and George Richter
Reels/Length/B&W/Color/Silent/Sound:
8/80 minutes/black & white/silent
Release Date:
January 4, 1925.
Cast:
Eugene O'Brien as Roland Keene
Mae Busch as Sal
Ben Alexander as Benny Keene
Tom Santschi as Steve McGregor
Mitchell Lewis as Osner
Mildred Harris as Chita
Idaho locations used in film:
Wallace and Burke
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"Shooting down on the bucket from an angle behind Keene, with the two men struggling desperately. Osner lunges at Keene, who ducks a little and then puts all his weight behind a blow to Osner's jaw. Osner reels backward against the far side of the bucket, his back hitting the trip-lever. As he hits the lever the bucket yawns open and Osner drops from sight."- -from the shooting script
[In the gulch below this battle is Burke, Idaho, hometown of Lana Turner.]
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Summary from AFI holdings:
"Western melodrama. After his wife dies, Roland Keene finds work as an actor with a road company, provided he gives up cards and liquor. The troupe has a poor season, and Keene is stranded in a mining town in Placer Valley. He meets Sal Flood there, and they are soon engaged, bringing west Keene's young son, Benny, for the wedding…Keene soon resumes his heavy drinking and is constantly cheated at cards by a professional gambler named Osner…Keene is forced by the gambler to rob the saloon safe of McGregor's mining payroll. Benny sees his father steal the money and is injured by the blast from the dynamite used by Osner to blow the safe; but Benny still has faith in his father, and…lies to the sheriff…Keene is overcome with remorse…Osner falls to his death, Keene returns the gold, and he is pardoned and happily reunited with his family."
Summary with Idaho information:
The Wallace Press-Times, on August 24, 1924, wrote that "a company of 28 stars and supporting players are in the troop which will be in Wallace in the near future, the date depending on weather conditions allowing rapid work in the filming of scenes on Mount Rainier." The troop arrived in Wallace on August 27, intending on staying and filming in the area for two to three weeks. Further articles in the Press-Times report on the film company shooting scenes in Wallace, as well as in Burke and Gem. The film company left Idaho on September 8, 1924.
SMITC holdings of film:
None. Film is presumed lost.
Related Materials:
Certificate:
Motion Picture Commission certificate allowing 1 original and 6 duplicate copies to receive total of 7 seals of approval (copy).
Licensing information:
Application for Motion Picture Commission license, as well as the license issued on December 26, 1924 allowing film to be exhibited and displayed in the state of New York (copy). Also license for duplicates to be made and exhibited, also signed December 26, 1924 (copy).
Motion Picture Commission:
Letter from M.P.C. asking for the elimination of scenes in both reels 5 and 6, as well as examination cards signed by examiners (copy).
Photographs/Stills:
11 stills from film.
Script:
Shooting script of film (copy).
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PRISONERS OF THE STORM (1926)
Director:
Lynn Reynolds
Writer:
Charles A. Logue
Photographers:
Ernest G. Palmer, Ross Fisher
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
6/6, 102 ft./black & white/silent
Release Date:
November 24, 1926
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"Bucky" and "Pierre" roughhousing in McCall snow.
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Cast:
House Peters as "Bucky" Malone
Peggy Montgomery as Joan Le Grande
Walter McGrail as Sergeant McClellan
Harry Todd as Pierre Le Grande
Fred DeSilva as Dr. Chambers
Clark Comstock as Angus McLynn
Evelyn Selbie as Lillian Nicholson
Idaho locations used in film:
McCall/Payette Lake
Summary from AFI information:
"Northwest melodrama. Source: James Oliver Curwood, "The Quest of Joan" (publication undetermined). Miners Bucky Malone and Pierre Le Grande are closing their northern mine for the winter when Sergeant McClellan of the Mounted Police overhears their trivial quarrel; later, he sees Le Grande's dogsled arrive at its destination without Le Grande. McClellan finds evidence that Le Grande has been murdered and suspects Malone; attempting to make an arrest, the sergeant is wounded, then carried to a cabin by Malone, who goes tot he settlement for a doctor. There he meets Le Grande's daughter, Joan, and Dr. Chambers, a disbarred physician, but a blizzard keeps the doctor from making the trip; ultimately, however, Joan and the doctor follow Malone to the cabin. Chambers tries to turn Joan against Malone, accusing him of killing her father; the cabin is buried by a snowslide; and in their efforts to escape, Chambers is killed by an explosion and exposed as the murderer."
Summary from Idaho information:
According to a Cascade News article on February 26, 1926, 23 members of the film company arrived on Tuesday, February 23, 1926. The same article reports that the film's original title was "Storm House," and further recounts that many locals from McCall, as well as local dog teams were used in the filming.
SMITC holdings of film:
None. Film is presumed lost.
Related Materials:
Licensing information: One application for license from the Motion Picture Commission (copy); one license/certificate allowing exhibition of film from the Motion Picture Commission dated September 17, 1926 (copy). One certificate for one seal for one original print of film, dated September 17, 1926 (copy). One "Report of Examiner" condemning the film "in toto" due to oil on print (copy).
Photographs/Stills:
One still.
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| COME AND GET IT (1936)
Directors:
Howard Hawks and William Wyler
Writers:
Jules Furthman and Jane Murfin
Photographer:
Gregg Toland
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound: 11/99 minutes/black & white/sound
Release Date:
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Links:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001328/
for Howard Hawks (director)
http://www.geocities.com/~themistyone/
for Frances Farmer (star)
Cast:
Edward Arnold as Barney Glasgow
Joel McCrea as Richard Glasgow
Frances Farmer as Lotta Morgan and Lotta Bostrom
Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom (won 1936 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor)
Andrea Leeds as Evvie Glasgow
Frank Shiels as Tony Schwerke
Mady Christians as Karie
Mary Nash as Emma Louise Glasgow
Idaho location used in film:
North Fork and Clearwater rivers
Summary from AFI information:
"Drama. Barney Glasgow, the affable manager of a logging camp, is overjoyed that his men have done a good job this year. His commission means that he can go home and marry Emma Louise, his boss's daughter, and make a success of himself. Celebrating after the season, he and his friend Swan Bostrom go to a saloon where they are impressed by the singing and demeanor of Lotta Morgan. Lotta and Barney fall in love, but Barney cannot bring himself to give up his goal of wealth for love, and he leaves her. She then marries Swan, whom she regards as the kindest man in the world. Many years later, Barney has married Emma and has two grown children, Evvie and Richard. . . . When Barney arrives at Swan's home, Lotta has been dead for some time, but her daughter, also named Lotta, is as beautiful as she. Barney becomes infatuated with the girl, who innocently thinks that Barney regards her as a daughter. He…brings them and Swan back to his home town, where he offers Swan a meaningless job. Because the town begins to gossip about Barney and Lotta, Richard goes to her home to confront her. They argue, but when she realizes that Barney's affection for her is not paternal, she and Richard become friends and soon fall in love. . . . At a company part at Barney's house, Richard and his father again quarrel over Lotta and almost come to blows when Lotta warns Richard not to hurt Barney because he is an old man. Hurt and ashamed, Barney stands idly by as Richard and Lotta walk out of his life…."
Summary from Idaho information:
The Idaho Statesman (March 17, 1936) reports around 50 technicians and specialists will arrive that week from California, to film the annual log drive down the North Fork and Clearwater rivers for the movie. The Lewiston Morning Tribune, (April 1) reports the film company will be moving from their main location camp at Camp Rosson and going 20 miles north to the head of Beaver Creek. The same article further recounted that the second staff of camera men had finished the day before and had returned to Hollywood already and that total production cost for the film would be $1,250,000, with $200,000 spent on location work in the Lewiston region. Two days later the same paper reported that two dogs of a dog sled that had been hired to haul supplies fought and both died. Other injuries reported: two woodsmen hospitalized for various injuries and one member of the company dying of heart failure atop a 50-foot tree. As for other events related to the filming, a labor strike and deep snow had stalled filming for some time.
SMITC holdings of film:
16 mm. original (3 reels); 3/4" transfer (2 parts).
Related Material:
Correspondence:
Letter from an ex-lumberjack who worked on Come and Get It and The Unconquered.
Photographs/Stills:
One movie still.
Reviews:
Newsweek. November 14, 1936 p. 60.
New York Times. November 12, 1936 p. 31.
Time. November 16, 1936 p. 28.
Variety. November 18, 1936 p. 12.
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| I MET HIM IN PARIS (1937)
www.svguide.com
for Sun Valley
Cast:
Claudette Colbert as Kay Denham
Melvyn Douglas as George Potter
Robert Young as Gene Anders
Lee Bowman as Berk Sutter
Mona Barrie as Helen Anders
George Davis as Cutter driver
Fritz Feld as Hotel clerk
Idaho location used in film:
Sun Valley
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Douglas and Colbert in a studio Sun Valley (via rear-projection).
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Summary from AFI information:
"Romantic comedy. Struggling New York fashion designer Kay Denham finally saves enough money to go to Paris. She leaves behind her doting but dull fiancé, Berk Sutter, in a rebellion against all that is 'sweet and conventional.' In Paris, she is lonely and undirected, and ventures into the American Bar in her hotel where she meets Gene Anders and his friend, George Potter. Gene falls in love with Kay, and they date, but always with George as chaperon, because George does not trust Gene's motives. . . . George attempts to undermine her faith in Gene, and out of spite, Kay agrees to accompany Gene to Switzerland, hoping to prove that she and Gene can maintain a platonic relationship. George appoints himself chaperone and accompanies them to St. Moritz. The trio try all the winter sports, including tobogganing, skiing and ice skating, thoroughly exhausting themselves. . . . after George professes his love for Kay and warns her that Gene will never marry her, he resigns as chaperon. . . . Gene's reluctance to commit herself, however, infuriates Kay. When his sophisticated wife Helen shows up unexpectedly, Kay is outraged by the betrayal of both men and returns to Paris. Berk is waiting at the hotel for her. . . . George and Gene, whose wife had agreed to a divorce, follow Kay to Paris, and all three men vie for her affection. After dismissing Berk and Gene because the first does not trust her and the second is untrustworthy, Kay chooses George, who overcomes his reserved demeanor. They marry and sail for New York, while Berk and Gene plot an overthrow."
Summary from Idaho information:
I Met Him in Paris was the first film to take advantage of Sun Valley's location and the amenities it offered. Paramount leased the land of a local man, Gus Anderson, a silver prospector for $500 and built a movie set complete with a Swiss-like lodge that the Anderson's moved into after filming was completed. The crew totaled 250. The interest in the area began around December 10, 1936, as reported by the Hailey Times, that reported a party of seven from Paramount were registered at the Bald Mountain Hot Springs and were discussing the possibilities of making a film starring Claudette Colbert. The announcement was made a week later and most of the film's cast and crew arrived in mid-January. the Times further reported that by February 4, 1937, "about 90 per cent of the filming for the picture will be done here," continuing that the company consisted of nearly 300 people and the cost of the picture well over half a million dollars. The filming finally completed, the remaining crew members left Sun Valley on April 1, 1937. This film and other Sun Valley films are discussed in Sun Valley: A Biography by Doug Oppenheimer and Jim Poore.
SMITC holdings of film:
16 mm. original (2 reels); 3/4" transfer (2 parts).
Related Material:
Photographs/Stills:
Two movie stills.
Poster:
1 color lobby card. (slide/scan)
Reviews:
Life. May 31, 1937 p.45-50.
New Republic. June 16, 1937 p.159.
New York Times. June 3, 1937.
Time. June 7, 1937 p.34-5.
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE (BOOK 1--ROGERS' RANGERS) (1940)
Director:
King Vidor
Writers:
Laurence Stallings and Talbot Jennings (born in Shoshone and educated at the University of Idaho)
Photographers:
Sidney Wagner and William V. Skall
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
14/125 minutes/color/sound
Cast:
Spencer Tracy as Major Robert Rogers
Robert Young as Langdon Towne
Walter Brennan as Hunk Marriner
Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Browne
Idaho locations used in film:
McCall and vicinity
Links:
http://www.irishmafia.us/
http://themave.com/Tracy/
for Spencer Tracy
www.mccall.id.us
for McCall--official site
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Summary from AFI information:
"Adventure. After his expulsion from Harvard for making an insulting sketch of the president of the college, young Langdon Towne returns to his home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1759 and announces to his sweetheart, Elizabeth Browne, that he is going to be a great artist. Forced to flee from the wealthy and powerful rogue Wiseman Clagett, whom he has also insulted, Langdon and his friend "hunk" Marriner meet Major Robert Rogers. Rogers, who is about to undertake a dangerous mission to annihilate a tribe of warring Indians, wants Langdon to join his rangers as mapmaker. . . .At St. Frances, the rangers swoop down upon the Indians, who have been massacring the white settlers, and in the bloody battle, Langdon is seriously wounded. The Indians defeated, the rangers begin the long and grueling trip to Fort Wentworth. . . . For days they march with only handfuls of dried corn to keep them alive, until the starving men vote to break up into hunting parties and meet at Eagle Mountain. With little success in their attempts to fish and capture game, when the men reconvene, their ranks have dwindled from one hundred and fifty to fifty. Despite their discouragement, the men bravely continue on, encouraged by Rogers. . . .As they approach the fort, Rogers runs ahead and discovers that the soldiers have gone, leaving nothing behind. Though at the point of desperation himself, Rogers tries to rally his men by telling them how much better off they are than some biblical figures who fasted for even longer than they. As the men start to rally, the British arrive, carrying ample food and supplies. Their mission completed and their stomachs filled, Rogers and his rangers march on in search of the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean, while Langdon remains behind with Elizabeth, who plans to go with him to London while he trains to be a great artist."
Summary from Idaho information:
The second MGM feature film shot in technicolor, Northwest Passage got off to a rocky start, as the directors and some of the parts had originally been intended for others. W.S. Van Dyke was initially to direct the film, but scheduling conflicts with It's a Wonderful World, caused his removal from the project. Both King Vidor and Jack Conway were considered for his replacement, with the final decision going to Vidor, although Conway did direct some additional scenes in November 1939. The role of Langdon Towne was originally meant for Robert Taylor, but eventually went to Robert Young. Locations included both Payette Lake, where exteriors were shot during the month of March, and McCall and Payette where pre-production location work was done throughout April, May and June of 1939. However, principal photography did not start until July 6. When filming commenced, there was a cast and crew of approximately two thousand. The Payette Lake Star reported that King Vidor arrived May 5 and would stay for only a few days, and further reported that "workmen began early today on reconstruction of St. Francis." On June 8, the Star advised those men who were wanting or seeking employment "to let their beards and hair grow from now until the starting date." There were further trials in store for the filming company, that of the weather and other natural disasters. The Star reported on July 20, 1939, that there had been a dam washout that delayed the filming and further that it was costing $25,000 per day to produce the film. Nonetheless, filming did finish in September. The premiere of the film occurred in Boise on February 20, 1940 at the Pinney Theatre. The film today is most noted for being one of the earliest films shot in technicolor and its negative portrayal of Native Americans. |
SMITC holdings of film:
3/4" transfer in three parts.
Related Materials:
Northwest Ho! 3/4" videotape:
Ten-minute making-of-the-film trailer.
Dramatic and interesting behind-the-scenes shots of the new and tank-sized
Technicolor cameras being hefted and floated around and on Payette Lake,
as well as the stars and locals at work and play in McCall and in their
makeshift community built in 1939.
Audio Cassettes:
Two tapes with Harold Weinberger, Assistant Director talking about the filming.
Poster:
Color poster. (slide/scan)
Stills:
5 movies stills (copies)
Reviews and Related Articles:
Canadian Historical Review. December 1941 p. 361-8.
Commonweal. 15 March 1940
Life. 18 March 1940 p. 50-4
Nature Magazine. May 1940
The New Republic. 4 March 1940 p. 308
The New Statesman and Nation. 24 August 1940
Newsweek. 26 February 1940 p. 29
The New York Times. 8 March 1940 p. 25
The Spectator. 23 August 1940
Time. 4 March 1940 p. 67-8
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McCall natives engage Hollywood troops.
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THE MORTAL STORM (1940)
Directors:
Frank Borzage and Victor Saville
Writers:
Claudine West, George Froeschel and Andersen Ellis
Photographer:
William Daniels
Reels/Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
12/100 minutes/black & white/sound
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Cast:
www.jimmy.org
for James Stewart--The Jimmy Stewart Museum
www.svguide.com
for Sun Valley
Cast:
Margaret Sullavan as Freya Roth
James Stewart as Martin Breitner
Robert Young as Fritz Marberg
Frank Morgan as Professor Roth
Robert Stack as Otto Von Rohn
Bonita Granville as Elsa
Irene Rich as Mrs. Emilia Roth
Idaho location used in film:
Sun Valley
Summary from AFI information:
"War, Drama. In a small German university town in 1933, a birthday celebration for Professor Viktor Roth is interrupted by the news that Hitler has been appointed chancellor. Roth, who is non-Aryan, his daughter Freya, and Martin Breitner, a family friend who loves Freya, are apprehensive about Hitler's rise, but Roth's stepsons, Otto and Erich Von Rohn, and Fritz Marberg, Freya's new fiancé, are enthusiastic. . . Freya breaks with Fritz and comes t return Martin's love, but the lovers are separated when Martin, who has helped a non-Aryan friend leave the country, is stranded in Austria. For refusing to acknowledge a difference between Aryan and non-Aryan blood, Roth loses his teaching position and is interned in a concentration camp, and his family's frantic efforts to locate him result only in a brief visit before his mysterious death. On their way to Austria. . . Freya is forced to stay in Germany indefinitely. Martin, however, returns for Freya and as the couple make their way through a difficult mountain pass, they are in sight of Austria when a Nazi patrol, led by Fritz, locates them. The lovers reach the border, but Freya dies shortly after from a gunshot wound incurred during the chase."
Summary from Idaho information:
Production occurred from February to mid-April, with Gretchen Fraser acting as Margaret Sullavan's stand-in for the skiing sequences. According to Sun Valley: A Biography, Fraser reports that all she remembers from the filming was that she had to ski in a skirt, which she points out "was ridiculous. . . it'd be ten below. I'd make one run and the whole back of that skirt would be filled with snow" (158). The theme of the movie was only slightly veiled, and Hitler, after seeing it, banned all MGM films in Germany.
SMITC holdings of film:
16 mm. original; 3/4" transfer in two parts.
Related Materials:
Poster:
Color poster. (slide/scan)
Reviews and Related Articles:
Commonweal 5 July 1940 p. 233
Life 17 June 1940 p. 41-3
New Republic 8 July 1940 p. 54
Newsweek 24 June 1940 p.50-1
New York Times 21 June 1940
Time 1 July 1940 p. 34
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Summary from:
"The [Glenn] Miller band is not getting enough work and has too much time off between gigs. Thrush Bari. . . helps get them an audition at Sun Valley and they are booked. The band's pianist is Payne, who had agreed to sponsor a Norwegian refugee some months before as part of a publicity stunt. The Norwegian arrives at Sun Valley and turns out to be Henie, a champion ice skater. Henie falls in love with her guardian and is aggressive about her intentions. Payne tries to hold her off, but finally realizes that he loves her as well. Bari is jealous of Payne's affection for Henie and quits, thus forcing Henie to have to appear in an ice show, which delights the audience."
Summary:
The movie associated with Sun Valley, and thus Idaho, began filming in February of 1941. The trickiest part of the filming occurred when, according to the Hailey Times, Glenn Miller and his orchestra had to get off the train "several hundred times to be welcomed with the proper degree of well-bred hysteria by the assembled populace." Much of the film was shot in Hollywood, including the most memorable scene of Sonia Henie gliding across black ice, which had been colored for the occasion. To this day the film is shown daily in the Sun Valley lodge.
SMITC holdings:
16 mm. original (2 parts); 3/4" transfer
Related Materials:
Poster:
Color poster (slide/scan)
Reviews and Related Articles:
Commonweal. September 26, 1941
Etude. August, 1941 p. 518
New Republic. October 20, 1941 p. 508
Newsweek. September, 1941 p. 49-50
New York Times. September 6, 1941 p. 20
Time. September 22, 1941 p. 83
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THE UNCONQUERED (1947)
Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Writers:
Charles Bennet, Frederic M. Frank and Jesse Lasky, Jr.
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
146 min./color/sound
Cast:
Gary Cooper as Captain of the Militia
Paulette Goddard as a convict girl
Boris Karloff as Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
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Poster headline: "I bought this woman for my own...and I'll kill the man who touches her!"
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Idaho locations used in film:
Falls River and North Fork of the Snake River
Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
"Another of Cecil B. DeMille's bloated epics about the shaping of America. Goddard is an indentured servant sentenced to 14 years of servitude in the American colonies. On the voyage across from England, she meets Cooper, a Virginia militia captain who takes an immediate liking to her. . . .She also attracts the eye of da Silva, a scurrilous trader. When his attentions grow too lewd, she slaps him hard, which makes him want to buy her contract and make her his own. He is foiled on the docks, though, when Cooper bids a higher price. Cooper immediately gives Goddard her freedom. Da Silva has too many other nefarious schemes in the works to be bothered by a little setback like this. . . .Goddard. . . falls into da Silva's hands gain when he manages to get hold of her contract and convince her that Cooper's purchase had been fraudulent. He puts her to work in a saloon he owns managed by crude Mazurki. . . Cooper isn't long in rescuing her at knifepoint. Da Silva's Indian wife is jealous of her husband's attentions toward Goddard, so she arranges with the tribe to have her kidnaped. Goddard is tied to a stake and is about to be tortured when Cooper comes on the scene to rescue her yet again. They arrive back at the fort just as the Indian attack with flaming arrows. Cooper helps the settlers fight off the Indians, then manages to kill da Silva and Mazurki in a shootout in a stable afterward. As the film ends he and Goddard are about to be married."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related Materials:
Correspondence:
Letter from an ex-lumberjack who worked on Come and Get It and The Unconquered.
Newspaper:
Ashton Herald articles about making of film.
Photos/Stills:
7 stills of film; 2 publicity stills.
Poster:
2 posters (slides/scans).
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THAT WONDERFUL URGE (1948)
(remake of Love is News)
Director:
Robert Sinclair
Writer:
Jay Dratler
Photographer:\
Charles G. Clarke
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
82 min./black & white/sound
Cast:
Gene Tierney as Sara Farley
Tyrone Power as Thomas Jefferson Tyler
Reginald Gardiner as Andre
Chill Wills as Justice of the Peace
Hope Emerson as Apartment House Keeper
Idaho location in film:
Sun Valley |
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Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
"Power's last attempt at comedy is a remake of a movie he made 12 years before, Love is News. . . . Power is again the newspaper reporter who has written a series of smarmy articles about the Doris Duke-type heiress played by Gene Tierney, who has led a life filled with incidents. Tierney accompanies her aunt, Watson, and European count Gardiner to Sun Valley, Idaho, where they are on a brief vacation. Since Tierney has no idea what Power looks like, he uses a false name and takes her to a cabin where he tells her that he's a local reporter who is eager to help her clear her name. If she'll tell him the truth about her life, he'll make certain that those scurrilous articles which have been written will be refuted. As Power spends time with Tierney, true love happens. He leaves for New York and that's when she learns his true identity. Tierney is livid and when she returns to Manhattan, she tells the panting member of the Fourth Estate that she and Power are married and that she has given him a great deal of money. That headline hits all the newspapers except Power's, thus sending his city editor Gough into a rage. He fires Power for holding out that information. . . Power thinks the only way he can disprove Tierney's claim of marriage is for him to actually get married. He proposes to coworker Whelan and she accepts. They get to the license bureau and are prepared to sign the necessary papers when Tierney arrives and accuses Power of bigamy. Power is in a pickle and decided to play it out all the way. There's a society party that Tierney and Gardiner are attending and Power arrives playing the role of jealous husband. . . Power races for Tierney's house, tells her that he really loves her, and their troubles dissolve in a clinch."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related Materials:
Poster:
1 poster (slide/scan).
Reviews:
New York Times. Dec. 22, 1948
Variety. Nov. 24, 1948
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| DUCHESS OF IDAHO (1950)
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Writers:
Dorothy Cooper and Jerry Davis
Photographer:
Charles Schoenbaum
Music:
Al Rinker, Floyd Huddelston, Henry Nemo, Lee Pearl
Length/Color/B&W/Sound/Silent:
98 min/color/sound
Links:
www.esther-williams.com
for Esther Williams
www.svguide.com
for Sun Valley |
Despite lobby card evidence, Williams never skiied (or swam) Sun Valley for Duchess of Idaho.
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Cast:
Esther Williams as Christine Riverton Duncan
Van Johnson as Dick Layn
John Lund as Douglas J. Morrissen, Jr.
Paula Raymond as Ellen Hallet
with Connie Haines, Mel Torme, Amanda Blake, Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton
Idaho location used in film:
Sun Valley
Summary from AFI information:
"Typical MGM musical with lots of singing, dancing, skiing, swimming, and color. Lund is a very rich playboy whom Raymond adores. She's his secretary and her main job appears to be saving Lund from the advances of obvious fortune hunters. Williams would like to help Raymond achieve her goal so she makes a play for Lund, the thinking behind that being that Raymond will again leap into the fray, rescue Lund, and he will begin to realize how valuable she is to him and how much she loves him. Williams and Johnson are in love and Van doesn't quite comprehend Esther's behavior. A few mixups, door slams, and 'I'll never talk to you agains' and we fade out with everybody in each other's arms."
Summary from Idaho information:
Filmed in Sun Valley in January, with the only news article from the Hailey Times reporting on January 20, that "strange scenes meet the eye at Sun Valley this week as MGM's photographers film the winter sequences for the film. . . ." The majority of the film was actually shot on a sound stage in Hollywood.
SMITC holdings of film:
16 mm. original in 3 parts; 3/4" transfer. Both missing an Eleanor Powell dance sequence.
Related Materials:
Poster:
Two color lobby cards (slides/scans)
Reviews and Related Articles:
Christian Century. July 26, 1950
Newsweek. July 31, 1950 p. 78
New York Times. July 21, 1950 p. 15
Rotarian. September, 1950 p. 38
Time. July 31, 1950 p. 62
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| THE WILD NORTH (1951)
Director:
Andrew Morton
Writer:
Frank Fenton
Photographer:
Robert Surtees
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
97 min./color/sound
Cast:
Stewart Granger as Jules Vincent
Wendell Corey as Constable Pedley
Cyd Charisse as Indian Girl
Idaho locations in film:
Sun Valley and Kooskia (Selway River) |
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Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
"Granger is on the run in Mountie territory after committing a murder in self-defense. Corey is in pursuit, and when he finally catches him he is steered in the wrong direction by his prisoner. Granger, who knows the wild north like the back of his hand, leads his captor into treacherous blizzards and a wolf pack. Corey is wounded and unconscious, but Granger carries him to safety, in the end restoring his health. Corey is convinced that Granger acted in self-defense and frees him. Charisse, as Granger's girl, is, as in any of her screen outings, the most watchable character in the film."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
Poster:
One poster (slide/scan).
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BUS STOP (1956)
Director:
Joshua Logan
Writer:
George Axelrod
Photographer:
Milton Krasner
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
96 min./color/sound
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Links
www.marilynmonroe.com
The "official" site.
Cast:
Marilyn Monroe as Cherie
Don Murray as Bo
Arthur O'Connell as Virgil
Betty Field as Grace
with Hope Lange and Hans Conried
Idaho location used in the film:
Sun Valley
Summary with Motion Picture Guide information:
"The Blue Dragon Café in Phoenix is where we meet Bo. . . ,a rambunctious cowboy who is in town to take part in a rodeo. He bullies the noisy patrons into a respectful silence during Cherie's big song and is rewarded with an innocent kiss of appreciation. From that moment on he is determined to make her his wife, in spite of her protestations and the dismay of his loyal sidekick O'Connell. Cherie boards a bus out of town to escape the noontime [sic] cowboy but Murray is not to be denied until the bus is stranded in a snow storm and the passengers [are] forced to spend the night in a diner. A fight. . . leaves Murray defeated and humiliated. By the time the road is cleared the next day a chastened Murray has calmed down to the point where he realizes he will get nowhere acting like a brute. A goodbye kiss brings spring back to the hearts of all and the happy couple board the bus to Montana and Murray's ranch."
Summary:
This was the first film Monroe made after her self-imposed exile from Hollywood, so publicity was huge. An advance crew arrived in mid-March of 1956 to transform the North Fork Store into Gracie's Diner, according to the Hailey Times. The principal players including Logan, Monroe and Murray arrived week of the 26th and stayed into the month of April. In an excerpt from his autobiography, director Logan recounts that during shooting for one scene, his son quietly leaned over and asked why the snow was yellow. Production stopped as technicians tried to figure out how the snow had turned yellow, but in the end the scene was used in the final cut, with only Logan's son noticing any difference.
SMITC holding of film:
16 mm. original (3 parts); 3/4" transfer
Related Materials:
Book Excerpt: from Movie Stars, Real People, and Me by Joshua Logan. Delacorte Press, 1978.
Poster: One color lobby card (slide/scan)
Reviews and Related Articles:
America. September 15, 1956 p. 576
Catholic World. October 19, 1956 p. 66
Commonwealth. September 7, 1956 p. 561
Coronet. August 1956
Films in Review. October 8, 1966 p. 413
Library Journal. October 1, 1956 p. 2174
Newsweek. August 27, 1956 p. 90
New Yorker. September 15, 1956 p. 7
New York Times. September 1, 1956 p. 19
Theatre Arts. October 1956 p. 57-9
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| DON'T CRY WOLF (1960)
Director:
M.L. Marshall
Writer:
M.L. Marshall
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
74 min. black and white
Cast:
Bryce Chamberlain as Matt Bradford
Sherry Hale as Karen Carlson
Chipper Cannon as Gary Gray
Charles "Chick" Bilyeu as "Monster"
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Idaho location in film:
Craters of the Moon National Park, Arco and Idaho State University
Summary:
This local production tells the saga of an ex-marine who was severely wounded during World War II and escapes from a mental institution after being hospitalized for many years. His war wounds left him with a damaged and distorted face and head....thus "The Monster" (seen in photo, above) is born.
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
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| GET YOURSELF A COLLEGE GIRL (1964)
Director:
Sidney Miller
Writer:
Robert E. Kent
Photographer:
Fred H. Jackman
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
90 min./color/sound
Cast:
Mary Ann Mobley as Terry
Chad Everett as Gary
Nancy Sinatra as Lynne
with The Dave Clark Five, The Animals, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto
and The Standells
Idaho location in film:
Sun Valley |
Studio captions:
The weather is cool but the romance is warm between youthful songwriter, portrayed by Mary Ann Mobley, and her music publisher, played by Chad Everett, during Sun Valley vacation.
It's go-go-go in MGM's song-filled, fun-filled "The Swingin' Set," story of young love and young dances interspersed with on-screen appearances of a half-dozen internationally famous recording stars and groups. Sam Katzman produced and Sidney Miller directed the Panavision and Metrocolor production toplining Joan O' Brien, Mary Ann Mobley, Chris Noel, Chad Everett, Nancy Sinatra and Fabrizio Mioni.
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Summary from AFI Catalog:
"Comedy with music. Terry, a student at a conservative girls' college, has written some sophisticated, bestselling popular songs under a pseudonym, knowing that she will be expelled if her secret is learned. Terry's extracurricular activities are discovered when her publisher, Gary, telephones her at school; and she is placed on probation until after the Christmas holidays. While spending the holidays at Sun Valley, Terry meets Gary in person. She becomes enraged. . . blaming him for her predicament. Sen. Hubert Morrison, grandson of the founder of Terry's school, arrives at Sun Valley to acquire a better understanding of youth. . . An embarrassing accident in which the senator loses his trousers on a dance floor jeopardizes his reelection; but the students, led by Gary, rally behind the senator and stage a show to regain him support. The show. . . guarantees the senator's reelection; and Terry and Gary find they are in love."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
Photos/Stills:
1 still.
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| SKI PARTY (1964)
Director:
Alan Rafkin
Writer:
Robert Kaufman
Photographer:
Arthur E. Arling
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
90 min/color/sound
Release Date:
June 30, 1965
Links:
www.dwaynehickman.com
Official Dwayne Hickman site
www.yvonnecraig.com
Official Yvonne Craig site
www.svguide.com
for Sun Valley
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Cast:
Frankie Avalon as Todd Armstrong (and Jane)
Dwayne Hickman as Craig Gamble (and Nora)
Deborah Walley as Linda Hughes
Yvonne Craig as Barbara Norris
Robert Q. Lewis as Donald Pevney
Annette Funicello in an uncredited appearance as a college professor
with James Brown, and the Flames, The Hondells, and Lesley Gore
Idaho locations used in film:
Sun Valley and Sawtooth National Forest
Summary from AFI information:
"Comedy with music. Handsome athletes Todd Armstrong and Craig Gamble pursue co-eds Linda Hughes and Barbara Norris at a Los Angeles college, but the girls prefer stuffy, unathletic Freddie Carter [Aron Kincaid]. When the gang takes a ski holiday at a Sun Valley lodge run by social director Donald Pevney, Todd and Craig decide to pose as females and flirt with Freddie to discover why the girls find him irresistible. Masquerading as Jane and Nora, the boys join the ladies' ski lessons where Freddie takes notice of the two newcomers. . . . Once home, the co-eds realize the joke Todd and Craig have played on Freddie. No longer prey to Freddie's flirtations, the girls find romance with Todd and Craig."
Summary from Idaho information:
Yvonne Craig (Barbara), in her recent autobiography From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond, reports that the best part of filming Ski Party was shooting in Sun Valley and its distance from Hollywood. Craig also recounts problems she encountered filming the James Brown and the Flames sequence: after repeated takes, she went from dancing to clapping to finally merely swaying to the music.
SMITC holdings of film:
16 mm. original (2 parts); 3/4" transfer
Related Materials:
Book:
Yvonne Craig, From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond (autobiography).
Photo/Still:
One still.
Reviews and Related Articles:
New York Times. October 23, 1965
Variety. June 16, 1965
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| IDAHO TRANSFER (1973)
Director:
Peter Fonda
Writer:
Thomas Matthiesen
Photographer:
Bruce Logan
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
87 min./color/sound
Cast:
Kelly Buchanan as Karen
Kevin Hearst as Ronald
Caroline Hildebrand as Isa
Keith Carradine as Arthur |
Buchanan (Karen) and Hearst (Ronald) hiking through Idaho in a scene from Idaho Transfer.
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Idaho locations in film:
Arco, Craters of the Moon National Park, Bruneau Sand Dunes State Park
Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
"A useless piece of drivel about an obnoxious group of teens who get 'teleported' into the future, where they are expected to set up a new civilization in Idaho."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
Newspaper Clippings:
Idaho Statesman and Los Angeles Times articles about the making of this film.
Photo/Still:
1 still from making of this film.
Reviews:
Time. Dec. 3, 1973. p.75-6.
Variety. March 26, 1975. p.32.
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| BREAKHEART PASS (1975)
Director:
Tom Gries
Writer:
Alistair MacLean
Photographer:
Lucien Ballard
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
94 min./color/sound
Cast:
Charles Bronson as John Deakin
Ben Johnson as Nathan Pearce
Jill Ireland as Marica Scoville
with Charles Durning, Richard Crenna and Yakima Canutt
Idaho locations in film:
Pierce and Reubens |
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Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
". . . a Western mystery that never flags from the opening sequence to the closing credits. . . Ireland is the romantic interest, such as it is, because he eventually goes off without her at the conclusion. Bronson is an undercover agent after a murderous gang. Most of the action occurs on a magnificent old train. Bodies are tossed off the train, cars come loose, there's an epidemic that really isn't, there's a cabal between cowboys and Indians in which they are attempting to defeat the Army; matter of fact, there are more turns than a politician's speech."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
Newspaper:
Articles from Lewiston Morning Tribune about the production.
Poster:
One poster (slide/scan).
Review:
Time. April 19, 1976. p. 82-3.
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POWDER HEADS (1980)
Working Title: The Penguins Are Coming
Director:
John Anderson, Michael French (ski sequnces)
Writer:
Michael French
Photographer:
Scott Kennedy
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
90 min./color/sound
Cast:
David Ferry as Striker
Gordon Marriott as Pork Chop
William Samples as Phillip Buster
Cathy Stewart as Belinda
Don Goodspeed as Joey
Idaho location in film:
Sun Valley
Summary:
The story line follows a Canadian ski club's zany antics on a club trip to various ski areas. The action shots were staged in Sun Valley with local skiers Lane Parrish, Peggy Pepper, Tom "A.G." Richie and Jim Stelling doubling for Canadian actors who were doing their portion of the film in Canada. Included in the shooting was the staging of a LeMans race on Bald Mountain.
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
News clippings from Idaho Daily Statesman.
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| BRONCO BILLY (1980)
Director:
Clint Eastwood
Writer:
Dennis Hackin
Photographer:
David Worth
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
119 min./color/sound
Cast:
Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy McCoy
Sondra Locke as Antoinette Lily
Scatman Crothers as Doc Lynch
Geoffrey Lewis as John Arlington
Sam Bottoms as Leonard James |
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Idaho location in film:
Boise, Eagle, and Meridian
Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
". . . It's a human comedy about a Wild West show peopled by losers Billy has picked up in his travels. Eastwood is perfection as the New Jersey shoe clerk, like Miniver Cheevey, dreamed of an earlier day and took action to realize his dream. . . .Every role is played with love and affection and reality in this paean of praise to days that once were."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
Correspondence:
From Pam Abas, film extra.
Newspaper:
Articles from Idaho Statesman and Valley News.
Poster:
Two movie posters (slides/scans).
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| HEAVEN'S GATE (1980)
Director:
Michael Cimino
Writer:
Michael Cimino
Photographer:
Vilmos Szigmond
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
225, 205, 149 min. versions/color/sound
Cast:
Kris Kristofferson as Averill
Christopher Walken as Champion
John Hurt as Irvine
Isabelle Huppert as Ella
Jeff Bridges as John H. Bridges
Sam Waterson as Canton
with Joseph Cotten and Brad Dourif
Idaho location in film:
Wallace |
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Summary from Motion Picture Guide:
"One of the most overblown epic westerns of any decade, director Cimino proved to be wildly extravagant with a free-hand budget and produced a film of incredible nonsense, historical inaccuracy, and a flagrant self-indulgence that clutches every scene. The story allegedly relates the events of the bloody 1892 Johnson County wars in Wyoming between cattlemen and the immigrants. Kristofferson, the son of wealthy people, becomes sheriff and must hold the two hating sides in check, a battle which he ultimately loses. Walken is a gunfighter who hires out to the ranchers, then turns on them. Both Walken and Kristofferson share the sexual favors of Huppert, who plays a notorious prostitute. . . it culminates with a huge battle between the settlers and cattlemen, a wholesale slaughter that turns the sod red with blood. None of the film is based on fact or even remotely deals with a fascinating real life history that certainly would have made a fine film had it not been ignored by the arrogant Cimino. . . ."
SMITC holdings:
None; seeking print of film.
Related materials:
Magazine:
Time article about the making of the film. 9/3/79. p.64-5.
Newspaper:
Articles from Idaho Statesman about the making of the film.
Poster:
One poster (slide/scan).
Reviews:
New Yorker. Dec. 22, 1980.
New York Times. Nov. 19, 1980.
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EASTER SUNDAY (1980)
(retitled The Being in 1983)
Director:
Jackie Kong (Mrs. William Osco)
Writer:
Jackie Kong
Photographer:
Robert Ebinger
Length/Color/B&W/Silent/Sound:
79 min./color/sound
Cast:
Jose Ferrer as Mayor of Pottsville
Ruth Buzzi as Wife of the Mayor
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