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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1499

Golden Dawn

193083 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 81:11
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Ray Enright · Public domain

Synopsis

In a colonial African settlement, Dawn loves a British prisoner while a local leader seeks to control her future. War, jealousy and claims about her ancestry determine who will act when she is placed in danger.

Cast

Walter Woolf King

Vivienne Segal

Alice Gentle

Noah Beery Sr.

DirectorsRay Enright

Historical context

The operetta relies on racist colonial assumptions, including the idea that ancestry determines a person's value. Although photographed in Technicolor, the feature survives in a monochrome copy.

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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.

Walter Woolf King — Film screenshot (Producers Releasing Corporation) · Public domain
Vivienne Segal — Bain News Service; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.19683 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
Alice Gentle — Bain; Library of Congress · Public domain
Noah Beery Sr. — Unknown photographer · Public domain

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