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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1345

Flowing Gold

192480 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 93:48
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Joe De Grasse · Public domain

Synopsis

A former soldier arrives in the Texas oil fields and becomes involved with a newly wealthy family. Business threats, an old military grievance and a romance converge as an oil-field disaster puts personal loyalties to the test.

Cast

Anna Q. Nilsson

Milton Sills

Alice Calhoun

DirectorsJoe De Grasse

Behind the scenes

The surviving film was restored from a Czech archival print. Its reconstructed English intertitles make that source history part of the edition now available to viewers.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Anna Q. Nilsson — Fred Hartsook (1876–1930); Anna Q. Nilsson at IMDB · Public domain
Milton Sills — Matzene Studio · Public domain
Alice Calhoun — Unknown author Unknown author; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain

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