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The Last of the Line
Also known as Pride of Race in the USA
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Jay Hunt [?] + [Thomas H. Ince]?
Cast: Joe Goodboy [Gray Otter, a Sioux chief], Sessue Hayakawa [Tiah, his son], Tsuru Aoki [the Sioux girl at the riverside], [?] Stanley Bingham? [the U.S. Army garrison commander]
New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Domino]. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by C. Gardner Sullivan [?] + [Thomas H. Ince]? / Released 24 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA as Pride of Race.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, however, turns out to be a drunken renegade. Violating the peace compact between his father and the colonel of the local garrison, he leads an attack upon the army paymaster. The old chief surprises him in action, and swiftly deciding that his son’s crime is punishable only with death, he shoots and kills Tiah. The American soldiers all are killed by the Indians, who then escape. Gray Otter makes the colonel believe that Tiah died defending the paymaster, and has the happiness of seeing the last of his line buried with high military honors.
Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 December 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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