The Aryan
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
William S. Hart
William S. Hart
Bessie Love
Louise Glaum
Charles K. French
Swallow
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
After years of labor, miner Steve Denton gathers up his fortune and sets out to visit his ailing mother. He is detained, however, in the town of Yellow Ridge, where a dance hall girl named Trixie not only cheats him of his gold, but also conceals a message wired to him from his dying mother. Learning the next day that his mother is dead, Steve kills Trixie's lover and then drags the dance hall girl into the desert, where he assumes the leadership of a band of Indian and Mexican bandits. Two years later, a caravan of Mississippi farmers, lost in the desert, appeals to Steve for help, but he refuses. That night, one of the settlers, little Mary Jane, visits him secretly to plead their cause and express her belief that no white man would refuse to protect a woman in distress. Deeply moved, Steve guides the caravan out of the desert and then resumes his wanderings.
Director
William S. Hart
Cast
William S. Hart
Bessie Love
Louise Glaum
Charles K. French
Swallow
Gertrude Claire
Herschel Mayall
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Sources differ as to the director of this film.
Notes
The picture was filmed in part in California's Mojave Desert. Modern sources list the actor credited as Swallow as Ernest Swallow, although contemporary sources do not list the actor's first name. Moving Picture World quoted the following intertitle as exemplifying the film's theme: "Oft written in letters of blood, deep carved in the face of destiny, that all men May read, runs the code of the Aryan race: 'Our women shall be guarded'; and a man of the white race May forget much-friends, duty, honor, but this he will not, he cannot forget."
