''The Conquest of Canaan'' is a 1916 American silent

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directed by George Irving and starring

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and Ralph Delmore.Connelly p.334 It was based on the novel by

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which was subsequently remade as a 1921 film of the same title.

Cast

as Ariel Tabor *

as Joe Louden * Ralph Delmore as Judge Pike * Marie Wells as Mamie Pike * Jean La Motte as Claudine * Jack Hopkins as Happy Fear * Walter Hiers as Norman Flitcroft * Thomas Ward as Nashville Corey * Ben Hendricks Sr. as Mike * Philip Robson as Martin Mann * David Higgins as Frank R. Buck

References

Bibliography

* Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.

External links

* 1916 films 1916 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by George Irving 1910s American films {{silent-film-stub