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The Land of Long Shadows
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Jack Gardner [Joe Mauchin], Ruth King [Jeanne Verette], C.J. Lionel [Roul Verette], Carl Stockdale [Constable McKenzie]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by K-E-S-E Service. / Scenario by W.S. Van Dyke. / © 9 June 1917 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company [LP10942]. Released 18 June 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by The George Kleine System in early 1919. The film was purchased [?] in March 1919? and rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis by Victor Kremer Film Features, Incorporated, in 1920.
Drama: Northwoods.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? In the land where the Sun hangs low and the hungry wolves shadows play ominously over the everlasting snow, Joe Mauchin meets Jeanne Verette. He is a trapper, come down to the little post of Mead’s Pocket, a vicious mining town, for supplies. She, the daughter of a saloonkeeper who compels her to “drum up trade” among his maudlin patrons. Joe falls in love with Jeanne. A brute of a man seeks to interfere and in the resultant struggle falls dead. Joe and Jeanne flee to his camp miles away and a year’s happiness follows. Then the trapper finds Constable McKenzie of the Mounted Police half dead in the snow. Joe revives the officer and carries him to his cabin. Straightway McKenzie arrests the trapper for the saloon death. A desperate fight ensues between the two and the constable, overpowered, flees for aid. He is last seen in the woods, staggering from the effects of a wound, and with a pack of wolves slowly drawing in on him. Joe, in the cabin, draws to his arms Jeanne who is shyly clutching a newly made bit of baby clothes. It is that for which Joe had fought.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 February 2024.
References: ClasIm-225 p. 44 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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