Early working titles for the film includedLucky StrikeandThe Northern Story.The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.The film itself often reverted to melodramatic style, with great character actors adopting static and unnatural attitudes, postures and gestures.During Greer's stately funeral and burial at Arlington Cemetery, the special-ops unit in Colombia was betrayed, stranded and cut off from US air support and satellite communications behind enemy lines...and right now, he's the greatest hero we ever had.It's all over the headlines."One of the other youngsters claims that Smith is an American patriot and publisher of the well-read Rangers' boys publication: "He's he greatest American we got too, Dad.