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William Wyler, Universal, 1929, from Peter B. Kyne's The Three Godfathers, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1912. Three bank robbers flee into the Mojave and find a dying woman in a wagon who names them godfathers to her newborn. Shot near Mojave in August heat. Released silent and with sound; the AFI notes a silent version at 5,836 feet. The Film Foundation restored it. The third authorized film of the story.
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Three bank robbers, a dying woman in a wagon, and a newborn they are named godfathers to. Wyler in the Mojave in August, released silent and with sound. Lean, religious, not sentimental. Watch the desert take two of them. Ford remade it twice; Wyler did it first and driest.
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