''The Shooting of Dan McGrew'' is a 1915
silent American
drama film
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directed by
Herbert Blaché, based on the 1907 poem
of the same name.
It was produced by
Solax Studios when it and many other early
film studios in
America's first motion picture industry
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were based in
Fort Lee, New Jersey
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, at the beginning of the 20th century.
The setting of the original poem was a
Yukon
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saloon during the
Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s.
Plot
Cast
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Edmund Breese
Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era.
Biography
Breese was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Renshaw Breese and Josephine Busby.
The Opera House in Eureka Spring ...
as Jim Maxwell
* William A. Morse as Dan McGrew
*
Kathryn Adams as Lou Maxwell
* Ordean Stark as Nell Maxwell (child) (as Audrine Stark)
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Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs; October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress.
Early life
Brent was born in Tampa, Florida, and known as Betty. When she was age 10, her mother Eleanor (née. Warner) died, ...
as Nell (adult) (as Betty Riggs)
* Wallace Stopp as Nell's Husband
References
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1915 films
1915 drama films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Herbert Blaché
Films based on poems
Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey
Films based on works by Robert W. Service
Films about the Klondike Gold Rush
Metro Pictures films
1910s American films
English-language drama films