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The Mine with the Iron Door (1924 film)

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Directed by
  
Sam Wood

Initial release
  
1924

Story by
  
Harold Bell Wright

Cinematography
  
Glen MacWilliams

Produced by
  
Sol Lesser

Director
  
Sam Wood

Producer
  
Sol Lesser


Written by
  
Louis D. Lighton (adaptation) Hope Loring (adaptation) Mary Alice Scully Arthur F. Statter

Based on
  
The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright

Starring
  
Dorothy Mackaill Pat O'Malley

Distributed by
  
Principal Pictures Corporation

Cast
  
Dorothy Mackaill, Pat O'Malley

Similar
  
A City Sparrow, His Children's Children, The Dancin' Fool, Sick Abed, What's Your Hurry?

The Mine with the Iron Door is a 1924 American silent epic Western melodrama directed by Sam Wood and produced by Sol Lesser. The film is based on the novel of the same name by American Author Harold Bell Wright published in 1923.

Prints preserved in Gosfilmofond and Bois d'Arcy|France.

In 2010 the film was tracked down by historian Demion Clinco and shown by the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation. As part of the screening english inter-titles were recreated and an original musical score composed by New York based conductor and composer Brian Holman.

In 1936 it was remade as a sound film The Mine with the Iron Door.

Cast

  • Dorothy Mackaill - Marta Hilgrove
  • Pat O'Malley - Hugh Edwards
  • Raymond Hatton - The Lizard
  • Bert Woodruff - Thad Grove
  • Charles Murray - Bob Hill
  • Mitchell Lewis - Sonora Jack
  • Mary Carr - St. Jimmy's Mother
  • William Collier Jr. - Chico
  • Creighton Hale - St. Jimmy
  • Robert Frazer - Natachee
  • Clarence Burton - The Sheriff
  • Lillian Leighton
  • Marie Eagle Eye
  • Laura Winston
  • Fred Huntley
  • References

    The Mine with the Iron Door (1924 film) Wikipedia