This film was the first feature-length outdoor film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor. The New York and Miami premieres of this film occurred within two days of each other, and each boasted record attendance. ![]() A Los Angeles preview for this film on was 110 minutes long the New York premiere the following day was only 100 minutes. In a prologue, a Falin-Tolliver shoot-out, which occurs during the birth of "June Tolliver," is depicted. ![]() The onscreen foreword to this film outlines the feud between the "Falins" and the "Tollivers," "shut-in valley people of the mountains of America." Novelist Rupert Hughes was commissioned by Walter Wanger to write the foreword. According to news items in DV, shooting at Big Bear took place in mid-Oct 1935, and the crew began four all-night sessions of exterior shooting at Santa Susana Pass on. This film was shot on location in Chatsworth, at Big Bear (in the San Bernardino Mountains), and at the Santa Susana Pass in CA. An article by director of photography Robert C. A contemporary NYT review states: "We can no longer doubt the inevitability of the color film," while MPH called the film "a Wow!" saying the Westwood preview received the "greatest burst of applause heard in years." Contemporary reviews mention the poor quality of the color blue in the film, but color designer Alexander Toluboff stated in an article in MPH on that the sky's natural color appeared artificial in the film because it was naturally "too blue." A MPH ad lists Toluboff as art director. ![]()
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