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The Man Who Paid
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Oscar Apfel
Cast: Wilfred Lytell [Oliver Thornton], Norma Shearer [Jeanne, his wife], Florence Rogan [Little Jeanne, their child], Fred C. Jones [Louis Duclos, a trapper], Bernard Siegel [Anton Barbier, his partner], David Hennessy [McNeill, Oliver’s storekeeper], Charles Beyer [Guy Thornton, Oliver’s brother], Erminie Gagnon [Lizette, the nurse girl at Thornton’s], Frank Montgomery [Songo, an Indian guide]
Distributed by Producers Security Corporation. / Scenario by Marion Brooks, from a screen story by Marion Brooks. / Released March 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Northwoods.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 25 March 1922, page 404] In the desolated wilds is a Trading Post, to which Oliver Thornton went to seek obscurity after being falsely convicted of a crime in the States. Fate brought him a wife, a girl from the wilds, and soon a child, and all was happy until his prison record became known to a villainous trapper who used this information to turn Thorton’s wife against him. Failing in this, Duclos, the trapper, and his Indian aides, kidnap the wife. Thornton’s brother arrives at the Post with news of Oliver’s name being cleared of the crime for which he was innocently convicted. The two brothers rescue Oliver’s wife and Duclos, the trapper, is killed by one of the Indians whom he had double-crossed.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 16 October 2011.
References: ClasIm-221 p. 51 : Website-AFI.
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