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The Sunset Trail (1917 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Sunset Trail' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by George Melford, written by Beulah Marie Dix and Alice McIver, and starring Vivian Martin, Henry A. Barrows, William Elmer, Harrison Ford, Charles Ogle, and Carmen Phillips. The picture was released on October 13, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
Cast
*Henry A. Barrows as Vernon Treloar
*William Elmer as Price Lovel
*Harrison Ford as Kirk Levington
*Vivian Martin as Bess Aiken
*Charles Ogle as Judd Aiken
*Carmen Phillips as Camilla Aiken
Reception
Like many American films of the time, 'The Sunset Trail' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors ordered cut one intertitle, "I must see you alone," and all love scenes between the married woman and man except for the last one.
Preservation status
The film is preserved at the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1234/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'The Sunset Trail']
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