The Gray Wolf's Ghost


1919

Film Details

Also Known As
The Grey Wolf's Ghost
Release Date
Oct 26, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Jesse D. Hampton Productions
Distribution Company
Robertson-Cole Distributing Corp.; Superior Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Maruja by Bret Harte (Boston and New York, 1885).

Synopsis

The unscrupulous attempts by speculators Dr. West and Jim Prince to have a railroad pass through lower California are met with opposition by Spanish landowners led by Dona Maria Saltonstall, who tries flirting with West to restore their property. Pereo, a religious fanatic who works for Dona Maria, believes in the curse of the Gray Wolf's Ghost, that if a member of Dona Maria's family mates with an alien, fortune and life will be lost. Meanwhile, West's son Harry, whom West deserted at age ten, comes to avenge the wrong done to his mother. After West refuses to recognize Harry and publicly denounces him as a blackmailer, West is murdered and Harry is accused of the crime by Prince, who wants the West fortune. Harry is about to be hung when the first train the lynchers have ever seen passes by. Pereo, thinking the train is a god, confesses that he killed West and is dragged to death after lassoing the locomotive. Harry restores compromising letters to Dona Maria and receives her consent to marry her daughter Maruja.

Film Details

Also Known As
The Grey Wolf's Ghost
Release Date
Oct 26, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Jesse D. Hampton Productions
Distribution Company
Robertson-Cole Distributing Corp.; Superior Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Maruja by Bret Harte (Boston and New York, 1885).

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Notes

H. B. Warner and Rita Stanwood were married. Some reviews refer to the title of this film as The Grey Wolf's Ghost.