The Great White Trail
Cast & Crew
Leopold D. Wharton
Doris Kenyon
Paul Gordon
Louise Hotelling
Thomas Holding
Richard Bennard
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Prudence Carrington chooses to marry George Ware instead of the Reverend Arthur Dean. The birth of their baby daughter completes the Wares's happiness until Prudence's scapegrace brother Charles comes to visit. Seeing his wife in her brother's arms, George accuses Prudence of infidelity and casts her out of the house with her baby. Partially demented by the shock, Prudence places the baby in a basket in the woods where she is discovered by Arthur Dean's dog who brings the basket home. Prudence is found unconscious in the woods and taken to a hospital while Dean adopts the baby. Upon recovering, Prudence discovers that she has lost her memory and so travels to the Klondike to serve as a nurse, arriving at the same town where Dean has gone to teach the gospel. Meanwhile, George, convinced by Charles of Prudence's innocence, has traced his wife to the Klondike. There he, too, loses his memory when he is knocked senseless by a bandit known as The Vulture. After Dean is accidentally slain by a stray bullet, the Ware family is reunited when a baby shoe in Marie's possession is matched with one owned by George. The shoe sparks George's memory and, with the reconstitution of the family, all ends happily.
Director
Leopold D. Wharton
Cast
Doris Kenyon
Paul Gordon
Louise Hotelling
Thomas Holding
Richard Bennard
F. W. Stewart
Hans Robert
Edgar L. Davenport
Bessie Wharton
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Originally eight reels in length, the film was later cut to seven reels. This was also the first independent production made by the Whartons, whose studio was located in Ithaca, NY. The film was also partially shot on location in the Adirondacks.
