The Outcasts of Poker Flat (RKO, 1937)

. . Old-fashioned but Preston Foster excellent . . John Ford, no less, directed the first film version of the 1869 Bret Harte story The Outcasts of Poker Flat, in 1919, a silent obviously, with Harry Carey as gambler John Oakehurst. Tragically, that version no longer exists. Very few of the twenty-five silent films Ford […]