The Source
Cast & Crew
George H. Melford
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Theodore Roberts
Raymond Hatton
James Cruze
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Van Twiller Yard, the alcoholic son of a prominent Bostonian, is shanghaied while on a drunken spree and taken to a lumber camp in New York's Green Mountains. Under the influence of hard work and the superintendent's daughter, Svea Nord, Van Twiller gives up drinking and soon earns the respect of his fellow lumbermen. When Big John Beaumont, the owner of the yard, witnesses a fight in which Van Twiller prevents Langlois, the foreman, from inciting the men to rebellion, he decides to place the former alcoholic in charge of the entire camp, to the displeasure of Svea's father. Secretly in the employ of the Swedish Power Company, owned by German spies, Langlois bribes Nord to prevent the opening of a dam that will allow the transport of Beaumont's logs to the mills. Van Twiller organizes the lumberjacks, and following a fierce battle, the floodgates are opened and the logs begin their trip down the river. As a result of his courage, Van Twiller wins Svea's love as well as the position of general manager of the lumber company.
Director
George H. Melford
Cast
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Theodore Roberts
Raymond Hatton
James Cruze
Noah Beery
Nina Byron
Charles West
G. Butler Clonblough
Charles Ogle
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
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Notes
Kelland's novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post beginning on August 4, 1917. G. Butler Clonblough was the name assumed by well-known actor Gustav von Seyffertitz during World War I. Some sources for this film call him Gustav Seyffertitz. A 1941 item in the Paramount studio records lists James Neill as a cast member.
