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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0014381922929 Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 17, 2000 Running Time: 109 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1926 Editorial Review: Description: In an untamed land, an unbroken spirit. Based on the famous novel by Zane Grey, "The Vanishing American" is an epic scale historical melodrama about the mistreatment of the Native Americans and their ability to survive in spite of the governmental, environmental and inter-tribal hardships. Filmed on location in Monument Valley and the Betatakin Cliff Dwellings of Arizona, this colossal Paramount production offers a sweeping history of the American Indian--from the prehistoric "basket maker" to the 20th-Century Navajo. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Starting Point for Native Americans in CinemaIt's pretty impressive when a silent, black and white movie made back in 1926 can still be interesting to watch in modern times. If you're open to movies with subtitles, I definitely recommend giving this a try. Zane Grey wrote the initial story, and the movie begins far back "in the beginning". Not all of the story is very flattering. These cliff dwellers of pre-history were apparently quite lazy. "Mog could sleep on any excuse or none". Rival Indians come flooding in, much like the ... Read More Rating: - A great film with important themesEven though I'm an Australian and haven't read Zane Grey's famous novel on which this film is based, I still got a lot of important points out of watching "The Vanishing American", as well as simply enjoying it for many other reasons. The opening scenes are already very impressive, with sweeping views of Monument Valley, and there is something of a history lesson to begin with, no doubt making the point that the land belongs to the native Indians. Then, in our recent history, European settlers came ... Read More Rating: - Vanishing AmericanFor anyone under the impression that Hollywood's sympathetic treatment of the American Indian occurred no earlier that BROKEN ARROW, and certainly no later than DANCES WITH WOLVES, and that John Ford discovered and was the first to paint cinematic masterpieces against the magnificent backdrop that is Monument Valley, THE VANISHING AMERICAN will come as a shock and revelation. Not only was Hollywood doing it before the movies talked, in many ways they were doing it much better. Richard Dix stars ... Read More Rating:  - Zane Grey's western novel turned into a silent film epic"The Vanishing American" is one of the great silent epics. Directed by George B. Seitz from a Zane Gray story, this 1925 silent film stars Richard Dix as Nophaie, a modern American Indian who heroically fights the Germans on the battlefields of Europe in World War I only to return home and find his people are still being horribly mistreated by a crooked Indian Agent named Booker, played by Norah Berry. One of the first films filmed on location in Monument Valley, this 148-minute epic also stars Lois Wilson ... Read More |
