Smoke Lightning had a two day run at Fredonia, New York’s Winter Garden Theatre in May 1933, but the headline attraction wasn’t all-...

Richard Dix and Lois Wilson in 1925's  The Vanishing American... Between 1923 and 1928, Paramount Pictures released almost a dozen fi...

MGM sent a film film crew to Sedona—its last to make the trip to Red Rock Country for twenty years—in May 1943 to photograph scenes for Roam...

That’s how clever studio flacks (not New Agers fearful of cataclysm in 2012) described the view from Sedona’s Schnebly Hill in the caption o...

Bad news, Sedona movie fans. The Russian film archive Gosfilmofond’s much-heralded gift to the U.S. of a digital copy of The Call of the Ca...

Forget the legend. Monument Valley wasn’t unknown to Hollywood before 1939’s Stagecoach , and director John Ford only “discovered” it in th...

Don’t tell the top brass at Fox Film, but their 1933 Robbers’ Roost wasn’t the first adaption of Zane Grey’s novel for another medium; list...

Paramount Pictures went on to make 52 more films based on Zane Grey stories over the next 17 years, but  To the Last Man , unlike  The Vanis...

Famous Players-Lasky PR claimed that while filming To the Last Man in Tonto Basin “Richard Dix hunted down a wildcat that had been harass...

Richard Dix stands triumphant following a Last Man barroom brawl, as uncredited Charles Ogle (far right) looks on. Ogle was the first act...

Last Ma n mountain girl Ellen Jorth (Lois Wilson) gets a kick out of store-bought footwear. Working in the great outdoors can be hazard...

To the Last Man began approximately four weeks of location filming in spring 1923. The company of 49 film workers and 53 pack animals arriv...

In 1921, Zane Grey bought three acres of land on Anderson Lee “Babe” Haught’s homestead in Arizona’s Tonto Basin to build a hunting cabin. “...

Lois Wilson and Richard Dix on location at Tonto Basin. Surviving Famous Players-Lasky press materials have left us with a pretty good id...

Lois Wilson in costume for To the Last Man . To the Last Man ’s top-billed Lois Wilson would also play the lead female roles in  The Cal...

Filming To the L ast Man at Tonto Basin in 1923 are (standing, from left) unknown, James Wong Howe, Richard Dix, Lois Wilson and Victor F...

To the Last Ma n star Richard Dix at Arizona's Mogollon Rim. It was probably in the late teens that Zane Grey began work on what wou...

Arizona’s Little Hollywood , the definitive history of the starring role Sedona played in the movies, focuses on the high desert country tha...

Heroic George O'Brien protects Shirley Nail in Riders of the Purple Sage. Over the years, a number of reports in the Arizona press h...

Stampeding hundreds of wild horses for a movie is a piece of cake, right? Spook them with the sound of a sharp bang and away they go. But ho...