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Where the Trail Divides
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Robert Edeson [‘How’ Lander], Theodore Roberts [Colonel Lander], J.W. Johnston [Clayton Craig], Winifred Kingston [Bess Lander], James Neill [Sam Rowland], Constance Adams [Mrs. Rowland], Fred Montague [Reverend John Eaton], Antrim Short [‘How’ Lander, as a boy], Mary Jane Higbee [Bess Lander, as a girl]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the novel Where the Trail Divides by William Otis Lillibridge. Cinematography by Robert L. Carson. / © 30 September 1914 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU3451]. Released 12 October 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4911.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Adoptions - Divorce - Native Americans - Infidelity - Oil - Orphans - USA: New York: New York

Listing updated: 29 November 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4911; Tarbox-Lost p. 206 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.