The Thundering Herd (1925)
Zane Grey's thrilling romance of the buffalo hunt days of '76. Filmed on a vast, panoramic scale.
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
- Date of release
- 1925-03-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- William K. Howard
Casting
- Jack Holt — Tom Doan
- Lois Wilson — Milly Fayre
- Noah Beery — Randall Jett
- Raymond Hatton — Jude Pilchuk
- Charles Ogle — Clark Hudnall
- Tim McCoy — Burn Hudnall
- Lillian Leighton — Mrs. Clark Hudnall
- Eulalie Jensen — Mrs. Randall Jett
- Maxine Elliott Hicks — Sally Hudnall
- Ed Brady — Pruitt
- Pat Hartigan — Catlett
- Fred Kohler — Follansbee
Interesting facts
The Thundering Herd is a 1925 American silent Western film, now lost. It is directed by William K. Howard and starring Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery Sr. and Raymond Hatton. Based on Zane Grey's 1925 novel of the same name and written by Lucien Hubbard, the film is about a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a buffalo-herd massacre. It was one of a series of critically and commercially successful Zane Grey westerns produced by Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor for Paramount Pictures.
Production
The silent black-and-white film is 70 minutes (seven reels, 7,187 feet).
Filming locations included Yellowstone National Park, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Calabasas, California. The Sierra Nevada shots, filmed somewhere near the state line, were for a blizzard sequence.
The entire bison population of Yellowstone, some 2,000 individuals, was rounded up for use in the stampede scene.
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