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'49–'17

191762 minUnited States
Western

Synopsis

A judge hires his secretary to recreate the gold-rush town of his youth. A struggling theatrical troupe supplies the residents, but the project also carries a search for a missing heir and allows old grievances to enter the staged frontier.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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69:48
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Ruth Ann Baldwin · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRuth Ann Baldwin

Inspirations

Ruth Ann Baldwin adapted The Old West Per Contract. The story makes western nostalgia part of its plot by having characters deliberately reconstruct the world they want to remember.

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  • William J. Dyer — William Desmond Productions / Metro Pictures Corporation; The Film Daily (Volume 14-16) (Jan. - Jun. 1921) at the Internet Archive · Public domain

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