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The Invaders

191241 minUnited States
Western

Synopsis

Railway surveyors enter Sioux land despite a treaty intended to protect it from settlement. Their arrival, and an encounter involving the chief's daughter, bring the agreement's promises into conflict with the ambitions of the newcomers.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
40:47
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Francis Ford and Thomas H. Ince · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFrancis FordThomas H. Ince

Behind the scenes

Thomas H. Ince used performers, animals and equipment from the 101 Ranch Wild West show. The production's Dakota setting was recreated on the California property that became known as Inceville.

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Photograph credit

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  • Art Acord — Photoplay Publishing Company (Life time: 1980); Original publication : Stars of the Photoplay Immediate source : https://archive.org/stream/starsofphotoplay00phot#page/n9/mode/2up · Public domain
  • Francis Ford — Photoplay Magazine; no photographer credited but Ford was then under contract to Universal Pictures; Photoplay , September 1915 (page 12) · Public domain

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