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Eyes of the Totem

192781 minUnited States
DramaCrime

Synopsis

After her husband is murdered and their savings stolen on arrival in Tacoma, Mariam Hardy must raise her daughter in poverty. Years pass, but she cannot forget the killer's eyes. A chance encounter brings the unresolved crime back into her carefully rebuilt life.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
81:05
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · W. S. Van Dyke · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsW. S. Van Dyke

Behind the scenes

H.C. Weaver Studios filmed on location in Tacoma and at its local production facilities. Long considered lost, the film was rediscovered in 2014 and returned to the city's Rialto Theatre the following year.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • Wanda Hawley — Nelson Evans (1889-1922); http://historicalzg.piwigo.com/picture?/4954/search/15003 · Public domain
  • Tom Santschi — Jack Freulich · Public domain
  • Anne Cornwall — Unknown publicity shot; photographers are credited en masse in the book's endnotes but which photographer is responsible for which is not listed. · Public domain
  • Gareth Hughes — Bain News Service; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.37729 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • Bert Woodruff — Unknown photographer; Wid's Weekly , October 6, 1923 https://archive.org/details/widsweekly192301wids/page/n20/mode/2up · Public domain

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