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Dynamite Smith

192470 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A reserved literary editor is sent to report on a violent incident and helps a threatened woman escape to Alaska. Her death leaves him responsible for her infant, while life in a frontier town gives him unexpected authority. The arrival of the man they fled forces him to confront the fear that still governs him.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
66:57
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Ralph Ince · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRalph Ince

Reception and legacy

Long presumed lost, the drama resurfaced in 2023 in an 8mm print with Dutch intertitles. The discovery restored access to a Charles Ray performance that contemporary reviewers had welcomed as a comeback.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

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