Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Even nearly 100 years later, there's a silent Western movie that was not only groundbreaking for the genre in 1925, but remains so even to this day, for two reasons in particular. At the time it was made in Pre-Code Hollywood, Westerns, like gangster films and other genres, were creatively daring and different from anything that was made after the Production Code Administration was established in 1934.
The Vanishing American Is The First Known Western Shot In Monument Valley The Vanishing American is a silent Western distributed by Paramount in 1925 that starred popular on-screen pairing Richard Dix and Lois Wilson.