George Walsh (Donald Norton), Tyrone Power (Corrigal), Eugenia Gilbert (Lorraine Layard), Robert Graves (Dale Millington), Michael D. Moore (young Donald), Evelyn Selbie (Donald's Indian mother), Edward Coxen (Layard), Virginia True Boardman (Mrs Layard), John Francis Dillon (the rival fur trader), Virginia Marshall (young Lorraine).
Director: B. REEVES EASON. Screenplay: Adele Buffington. Based on the 1924 novel of the same title by Robert E. Pinkerton. Photography: Art Reeves. Producer: I.E. Chadwick.
Copyright March 26, 1926 by Chadwick Pictures Corp. New York opening not recorded. Los Angeles opening: June 26, 1926. Originally 8 reels in length, the film was cut down to 7 for its release on March 1, 1926. The movie survives of course only in its 5-reel, 67 minutes Kodascope version which is available on a very good Alpha DVD.
SYNOPSIS: In the frozen north, a husky but not over-bright half-breed Indian seeks the identity of his white father. Any child in the audience could have told him this – despite the fact that the hissable hypocrite is actually presented as a man of character.
COMMENT: Saddled with a foregone-conclusion plot, director Eason (aided immeasurably by the astute editors at Kodak) makes the best of his real locations in the frozen North and astutely involves his principals (rather than their stuntmen) in a knockdown fight-to-the finish. I must admit that chunky George Walsh is not my idea of a romantic hero. As an actor, he just loves to impersonate a store-window dummy, but there are so many thrills in this movie version of Pinkerton's popular novel that Walsh's stiff performance really doesn't matter all that much. The rest of the players are fine – particularly Evelyn Selbie as our hero's really vicious mother!
Director: B. REEVES EASON. Screenplay: Adele Buffington. Based on the 1924 novel of the same title by Robert E. Pinkerton. Photography: Art Reeves. Producer: I.E. Chadwick.
Copyright March 26, 1926 by Chadwick Pictures Corp. New York opening not recorded. Los Angeles opening: June 26, 1926. Originally 8 reels in length, the film was cut down to 7 for its release on March 1, 1926. The movie survives of course only in its 5-reel, 67 minutes Kodascope version which is available on a very good Alpha DVD.
SYNOPSIS: In the frozen north, a husky but not over-bright half-breed Indian seeks the identity of his white father. Any child in the audience could have told him this – despite the fact that the hissable hypocrite is actually presented as a man of character.
COMMENT: Saddled with a foregone-conclusion plot, director Eason (aided immeasurably by the astute editors at Kodak) makes the best of his real locations in the frozen North and astutely involves his principals (rather than their stuntmen) in a knockdown fight-to-the finish. I must admit that chunky George Walsh is not my idea of a romantic hero. As an actor, he just loves to impersonate a store-window dummy, but there are so many thrills in this movie version of Pinkerton's popular novel that Walsh's stiff performance really doesn't matter all that much. The rest of the players are fine – particularly Evelyn Selbie as our hero's really vicious mother!