''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' is a 1916 American
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...
. It is based on the 1908
novel
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and the 1912 play of the same name by
Eugene Walter
Eugene Ferdinand Walter, Jr. (November 30, 1921 – March 29, 1998) was an American screenwriter, poet, short-story author, actor, puppeteer, gourmet chef, cryptographer, translator, editor, costume designer and well-known raconteur. During his y ...
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Charlotte Walker
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Charlotte Ganahl Walker (December 20, 1876March 23, 1958) was a Broadway theater actress.
Early life
Charlotte Ganahl Walker was born on December 20, 1876, in Galveston, Texas to Edwin A. Walker (1849–1889) and Charlisa (De ...
reprised her role from the Broadway production. A copy of the 1916 film survives in the archives of
George Eastman House
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...
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The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine''
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Cast
* Charlotte Walker
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Charlotte Ganahl Walker (December 20, 1876March 23, 1958) was a Broadway theater actress.
Early life
Charlotte Ganahl Walker was born on December 20, 1876, in Galveston, Texas to Edwin A. Walker (1849–1889) and Charlisa (De ...
as June Tolliver
* 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 co ...
as Jack Hale
* Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe (born Earl Aldrich Fox; December 25, 1891 – December 10, 1973) was an American actor.
Early years
Foxe was born in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. He was educated at Ohio Sta ...
as Dave Tolliver
* Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American film and stage actor.
Early life
Roberts was born in San Francisco, California. He was a cousin of the stage actress Florence Roberts. His choice of a career disapp ...
as Judd Tolliver
Other adaptions
The novel was first adapted for the screen in 1914, and starred Dixie Compton. Another version released in 1923 starred Mary Miles Minter
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and is now considered a lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
. The novel was adapted for the fourth time in 1936, an early Technicolor
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Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ...
version starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, and Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics.
Born and ra ...
.
References
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1916 films
1916 romantic drama films
1916 Western (genre) films
American romantic drama films
American black-and-white films
American films based on plays
Famous Players-Lasky films
Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Films set in Virginia
Films based on American novels
Films based on adaptations
Silent American Western (genre) films
1910s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent American drama films
1910s English-language films