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The Great Divide (1925 film)

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Genre
  
Western

Costume design
  
Sophie Wachner

Director
  
Reginald Barker

Story by
  
William Vaughn Moody

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

The Great Divide (1925 film) movie poster
Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Writer
  
Benjamin Glazer
,
Waldemar Young

Release date
  
February 15, 1925 (1925-02-15)

Based on
  
The Great Divide  by William Vaughn Moody

Cast
  
Alice Terry
,
Wallace Beery
,
Conway Tearle

Similar movies
  
The Wrath of the Gods (1914), The Italian (1915), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

The Great Divide is a 1925 silent drama film produced and distributed by MGM and directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Alice Terry, Conway Tearle and Wallace Beery. It is based on the William Vaughn Moody play, being the second of three film adaptations. The play had been made famous on the 1906 Broadway stage with Margaret Anglin, Henry Miller, Laura Hope Crews and a pre-Griffith Henry B. Walthall in the principal parts.

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Plot

Ruth Jordan is a gentlewoman rescued from a fate worse than death by Stephen Ghent—facing Dutch, the nastiest man in the West.

Cast

  • Alice Terry - Ruth Jordan
  • Conway Tearle - Stephen Ghent
  • Wallace Beery - Dutch
  • Huntley Gordon - Philip Jordan (as Huntly Gordon)
  • Allan Forrest - Dr. Winthrop Newbury
  • George Cooper - Shorty
  • ZaSu Pitts - Polly Jordan
  • William Orlamond - Lon
  • Reception

    The film made a profit of $115,000.

    Status

    The film is currently considered a lost movie. No negative or positive elements are known to have survived.

    References

    The Great Divide (1925 film) Wikipedia
    The Great Divide (1925 film) IMDb