The Lamb
Cast & Crew
W. Christy Cabanne
Douglas Fairbanks
Seena Owen
William E. Lowery
Lillian Langdon
Monroe Salisbury
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Synopsis
Gerald, the weakling son of a wealthy New York family, loses his fiancée Mary after he is shown up by Bill, an enormous Arizonian, during a beach bathing accident. Disgusted by Gerald's "yellow streak," Mary goes to visit friends in Arizona with Bill but is followed by a determined Gerald. On the train West, Gerald disembarks to buy trinkets and is captured by Yaqui Indians and taken to Mexico. Later, Mary is also kidnapped and ends up next to Gerald. While the less-than-heroic Bill runs back across the border to secure help for Mary, Gerald locates an abandoned Mexican rapid-fire cannon that the Yaquis won in a battle with the Mexicans. Gerald uses the cannon, which the Indians regarded as junk, to begin an assault on them. After a long and heated battle, the battered but victorious Indians close in on Gerald, intending to cut out his heart, but both he and Mary are saved by American troopers. Convinced of her companion's bravery and manliness, Mary reunites with Gerald.
Director
W. Christy Cabanne
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks
Seena Owen
William E. Lowery
Lillian Langdon
Monroe Salisbury
Kate Toncray
Alfred Paget
Eagle Eye
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Notes
This film, which featured Douglas Fairbanks in his first starring screen role. As noted in the New York Times review, The Martyrs of the Alamo was the first film in which he acted, but that film was released after The Lamb. w The picture as part of the first Triangle Film Corp. program and was re-issued on September 2, 1917. Copyright submissions state that The Lamb was based on The Man and the Test, a novel by Granville Warwick, D. W. Griffith's pseudonym. According to modern sources, however, Griffith wrote an original scenario for the film but was encouraged by Harry Aitken, head of the Triangle Film Corp., to allow his name to be used as the author of various non-existent novels that were cited as the literary sources for some Fine Arts productions. Griffith later denied any contribution on the film beyond the scenario.
