THE MAN OF THE FOREST
Zane Grey
Milt Dale is lives in the woods with his half-tame cougar. A stoic hero, he overhears a plan to kidnap the nieces (and only heir) to a local ranch owner as part of a larger plot to get the rancher’s land. Being the hero, Milt sets out to save the girls, Helen and Bo, and to stop the villains.
The novel has been filmed three times. The first, a 1921 silent film directed by Howard Hickman starred Carl Gantvoort, Claire Adams, and Robert McKim. The film ran for ninety minutes.
Man of the Forest is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by John Waters and written by Zane Grey, Max Marcin and Fred Myton. The film starred Jack Holt, Georgia Hale, El Brendel, Warner Oland, Tom Kennedy, George Fawcett and Ivan Christy. The film was released on December 27, 1926, by Paramount Pictures.
Henry Hathaway directed a remake in 1933 starring Randolph, with Scott darkening his hair and wearing a moustache to match stock footage of Holt playing the part. Noah Beery Sr. portrayed Warner Oland's part as Clint Beasley in the remake while Tom Kennedy reprised his role as the Sheriff.
Pearl Zane Grey was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
In addition to the success of his printed works, his books have second lives and continuing influence adapted for films and television. His novels and short stories were adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.
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