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The Splendid Road
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Wikipedia article
'The Splendid Road' is a 1925 American historical drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Anna Q. Nilsson, Robert Frazer, and Lionel Barrymore.Goble p. 963[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SplendidRoad1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Splendid Road'] at silentera.com Based upon the novel of the same name by Vingie E. Roe, the film is set during the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, one of the passengers on a ship sailing from Boston around Cape Horn to California is an adventurous young woman, Sandra (Nilsson). A widow dies, her little girl appeals to Sandra. Rather than split the little family, Sandra adopts all three children, and decides to remain in Sacramento and make a home for them. Chance causes Stanton Halliday (Frazer), an agent for John Grey (Davis), a capitalist, to come to her rescue and they are attracted to each other. Doctor Bidwell (Earle) loves the capitalist's daughter Lillian (Day) but, believing she loves Halliday, he persuades Sandra that she must give him up or ruin his career. Halliday is ordered to evict Sandra who is a squatter, but he refuses and goes to her rescue. Halliday is shot by Dan Chehollis (Barrymore), a gambler who seeks to force his attentions on Sandra. While convalescing, he learns of Bidwell's action and goes back to Sandra, arriving in time to take her and her family away to safety after a wild wagon ride, as floods have caused the levee to burst and the town is flooded.
Cast
Preservation
With no copies of 'The Splendid Road' located in any film archives,[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9466/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Splendid Road'] it is a lost film.[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html 'The Splendid Road' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: 'Lost First National films - 1925']
See also
*Lionel Barrymore filmography
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. 'The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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