''The Trail to Yesterday'' is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Bert Lytell and Anna Q. Nilsson. It was produced by and distributed by Metro Pictures. It is based on a novel, ''The Trail to Yesterday'' (1913), by Charles Alden Seltzer. A nitrate fragment of the print is held by EYE Institut/ Filmmuseum, Netherlands.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, David Langford (Maupain) kills his partner and accuses the son of the murder. A fugitive from justice, Ned Keegles (Lytell) goes out west, determined on revenge. When he meets Sheila Langford (Nilsson), he forces her to marry him, and believes his revenge is complete. When he hears that Langford is Sheila's stepfather, he is sorry. He tells Sheila so and begs for her forgiveness, but his enemies have darkened his character and she is slow to forgive. The attempted murder of Ned's best friend forces him to talk. Sheila comes to understand the true state of affairs and becomes satisfied with her marriage and the forced ceremony.

Cast

* Bert Lytell as Ned "Dakota" Keegles * Anna Q. Nilsson as Sheila Langford *

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as Jack Duncan * Ernest Maupain as David Langford * John A. Smiley as Ben Doubler * Danny Hogan as "Texas" Blanco

Production

Some filming took place at

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Reception

Like many American films of the time, ''The Trail to Yesterday'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 3, of Dakota shooting Blanco and his falling and, in Reel 5, of Duncan shooting an old man at the door.

References

External links

* * * Seltzer, Charles Alden (1913),
The Trail to Yesterday
', New York: A. Burt Co., on the Internet Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Trail to Yesterday, The 1918 films 1918 Western (genre) films Films shot in Arizona Films shot in Tucson, Arizona Films directed by Edwin Carewe Films based on American novels American black-and-white films Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s American films