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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150920142358/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=18207 The AFI Catalog of Feature Film 18931993:'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'](Wayback) It is based on the 1908 novel and the 1912 play of the same name by Eugene Walter. Charlotte Walker reprised her role from the Broadway production. A copy of the 1916 film survives in the archives of George Eastman House.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1370/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine']
Cast
* Charlotte Walker as June Tolliver
* Thomas Meighan as Jack Hale
* Earle Foxe as Dave Tolliver
* Theodore Roberts 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 and is now considered a lost film. The novel was adapted for the fourth time in 1936, an early Technicolor version starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, and Henry Fonda.
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