Jordan Is a Hard Road
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Allan Dwan
Dorothy Gish
Frank Campeau
Sarah Truax
Owen Moore
Ralph Lewis
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On the eve of his arrest for robbery, Bill Milden sends Cora, his baby daughter, to stay with Mrs. Findlay in Askatoon. As Bill continues on his course of crime and incarceration, Cora grows up under the strict direction of Mrs. Findlay, ignorant of her father's existence. After he attends a rousing revival meeting in which his now grown daughter is performing, Bill is reformed and decides to settle in Askatoon. He deposits a large sum of his ill-gotten money in the town bank, transforms the inn into a temperance hotel and moves the still ignorant Cora in with him. To help Cora win the heart of Mark Sheldon, an English prospector, Bill announces he will invest $50,000 in Sheldon's new mine. When Bill's money is stolen in a bank robbery, however, he enacts a final daring train robbery. As he turns the cash over to Sheldon, Bill nobly shoots himself and then dies in Cora's arms.
Director
Allan Dwan
Cast
Dorothy Gish
Frank Campeau
Sarah Truax
Owen Moore
Ralph Lewis
Fred Burns
Mabel Wiles
Lester Perry
Jim Kid
Walter Long
Joseph Singleton
Elmo Lincoln
Clarence Geldert
Film Details
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Trivia
Director Allan Dwan hired famed evangelist Billy Sunday to preach a real-life revival meeting in a tent in Hollywood. He filmed the attendees and intercut these shots with shots of actor Frank Campeau acting the part of a preacher.
Notes
Scenes for this film were shot at Bear Lake Valley, CA, where a recreation of an Alaskan town was built. According to a publicity release, the Mutual Film Corp. bought the rights to Parker's story in June 1915 and hired Mary H. O'Connor to write the scenario. When Griffith left Mutual with Harry Aitken to form Fine Arts, Jordan Is a Hard Road went with him, although modern sources dispute Griffith's participation in the production.
