''Heart of the Wilds'' is a
lost
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Geography
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History
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1918 American silent drama film directed by
Marshall Neilan
Marshall Ambrose "Mickey" Neilan (April 11, 1891 – October 27, 1958) was an American actor.
Early life
Born in San Bernardino, California, Neilan was known by most as "Mickey." Following the death of his father, the eleven-year-old Mickey N ...
and starring
Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Hiram and Amelia Ferguson. Her father was a successful attorney. Raise ...
. The story is from "Pierre and His People", by Gilbert Parker, which Edgar Selwyn also based his play ''Pierre of the Plains'' on. Ferguson had become a star in 1908 in Selwyn's Broadway play.
''Pierre of the Plains'' as produced on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre, October 12 1908 to November 1908; IBDb.com
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Cast
*Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Hiram and Amelia Ferguson. Her father was a successful attorney. Raise ...
as Jen Galbraith
*Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he comm ...
as Sergeant Tom Gellatly
* Joseph W. Smiley as Peter Galbraith (credited as Joseph Smiley)
* Matt Moore as Val Galbraith
*E. L. Fernandez as Pierre (billed Escamillo Fernandez)
*Sidney D'Albrook
Sidney D'Albrook (May 3, 1886 – May 30, 1948) was an American actor.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, a son of Harry Dahlbruck, a musician, and Jennie McGuire. He was working as an actor in Davenport, Iowa, in 1910, living with his sister Rut ...
as Grey Cloud
Reception
Like many American films of the time, ''Heart of the Wilds'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors modified the plot of this film by requiring cuts in Reel 2 of Val drawing a gun from case, shooting Grey Cloud, and putting the gun away after the shooting, the cuts intending to eliminate the entire idea that the Indian was shot by Val. The board also cut, in Reel 4, Jen shooting Sergeant Tom Gellatly of the mounted police.
See also
*'' Over the Border'' (1922)
References
External links
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Lantern slide
image from the film
matches lobby poster litho
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1918 films
American silent feature films
Lost American films
Films based on works by Gilbert Parker
Films directed by Marshall Neilan
1918 drama films
Silent American drama films
American black-and-white films
Films based on short fiction
1918 lost films
Lost drama films
Censored films
1910s American films
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