Kalpana Kalpana (Editor)

The Savage (1917 film)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Directed by
  
Rupert Julian

Cinematography
  
John F. Seitz

Distributed by
  
Bluebird Photoplays

Director
  
Rupert Julian

Producer
  
Mel Epstein

Produced by
  
Mel Epstein

Production company
  
Bluebird Photoplays

Initial release
  
1917

Production company
  
Universal Pictures

The Savage (1917 film) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb9

Starring
  
Ruth Clifford Colleen Moore Monroe Salisbury

Written by
  
Elliott J. Clawson (Story, Scenario)

Cast
  
Colleen Moore, Ruth Clifford, Monroe Salisbury

Similar
  
The Man in the Moonlight, Her Bridal Nightmare, The Devil's Claim, The Egg Crate Wallop, Slippy McGee

The savage 1907 semi automatic pistol


The Savage is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Colleen Moore and Monroe Salisbury that is set in Canada and was directed by Rupert Julian. The film is presumed to be lost.

Contents

The savage model 1907 automatic handgun


Story

Marie Louise returns home from finishing school, and catches the eye of Julio Sandoval, an emotional half-breed. She is engaged to Captain McKeever of the mounted police, but Sandoval wants her for himself. Finding her alone in the woods, the half-breed carries her to his cabin, but he is taken ill. Marie nurses him back to health, and when a rescue party arrives for her, she protects him. Back in town, Marie discovers McKeever has been taken prisoner by the outlaw Joe Bedotte. Julio goes to the rescue, losing his life in the process.

Cast

  • Ruth Clifford as Marie Louise
  • Colleen Moore as Lizette
  • Monroe Salisbury as Julio Sandoval
  • Allen Sears as Captain McKeever (credited as Allan Sears)
  • W. H. Bainbridge as Michael Montague
  • Arthur Tavares as Joe Bedotte
  • George Franklin as Baptiste
  • Duke R. Lee as Pierre (credited as Duke Lee)
  • Production

    Shortly after Colleen Moore's arrival in Hollywood, the Triangle Film Corporation went through a reorganization with the departure of D. W. Griffith for Europe. Colleen's contract was with Griffith's studio, not Triangle, and so she found herself on contract with no projects. She found a part in Universal Bluebird's film The Savage and was given several weeks off from her contract to film her part. In the film, Colleen plays the part of Lizette, a half-breed like Julio. This would be one of several "exotic" roles Colleen would play during her career, including her part as a Persian in The Devil's Claim. After this film, Colleen went on to work at the Selig Polyscope Company.

    Reception

    Like many American films of the time, The Savage was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of the holdup and stealing of a letter, two scenes of the holdup of the officer at point of knife, binding the officer to the cabin wall, two closeups of men leering at the young woman after the intertitle "Give me a leetle kiss", and three closeups of the half-breed's face as he looks at the unconscious young woman in the cabin. The Board later made additional cuts in Reel 3 of all closeups of the half-breed leering at young woman at brookside, all but the first scene of the half-breed chasing her, the entire incident of half-breed laying unconscious woman on couch-bed including all closeups of man's passionate contortions and girl's scared face, intertitle "The white man's instinct struggles for supremacy", all other views of couple, and the intertitle "They'll kill you for this".

    References

    The Savage (1917 film) Wikipedia