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The White Rose of the Wilds
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Blanche Sweet [White Rose], Robert Harron [White Rose’s brother], W. Chrystie Miller [White Rose’s father], Wilfred Lucas [the first outlaw], Joseph Graybill [the second outlaw], [?] Donald Crisp?, [?] Mack Sennett?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Frank E. Woods, from a story by Bret Harte. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 25 May 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by The General Film Company, Incorporated, in 1916.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? An unsuccessful old gold miner is stricken down and dies, leaving three young children to take care of themselves. They are a boy of seventeen, a girl of sixteen and a girl of eleven. The boy, inheriting his father’s determination, insists that they remain for he is sure there is gold to be found. Later his efforts are rewarded, and he rushes off to the agent to file his claim. While he is away a trio of thugs break into the cabin, but the pure, innocent girl so impresses one of them that he drives the other two off. To him she is as a white, unsullied rose, blooming here in the wilderness. Her clear eye of innocence awakens his better self and he goes, asking if he may return when he has proven himself worthy.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 October 2023.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 42; Drew-Speaking p. 285; Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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