Scarlet Days
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
D. W. Griffith
Richard Barthelmess
Clarine Seymour
Eugenie Besserer
Carol Dempster
Ralph Graves
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Synopsis
In the days of '49, Rosie Nell, a dance hall girl, saves gold from her prospecting customers to enable her to join her daughter in Boston. After another dance hall girl, trying to rob Nell, dies of a heart attack, Nell's hanging is stopped when word comes that her daughter, Lady Fair, has arrived. The Mexican bandit Alvarez and John Randolph, a Virginian miner, both attracted to Lady Fair, persuade the sheriff to allow Nell three days with her, which are the happiest of Nell's life, although the daughter is nearly driven insane when she learns the source of her boarding school funding. When King Bagley, the dance hall proprietor, decides to make Lady Fair his star attraction, Alvarez and Randolph protect the women in Randolph's cabin, from Bagley's men. The sheriff and a posse arrive after Alvarez offers to give himself up, and although Nell dies, the gang is dispersed. After Chiquita, whom Alvarez spurned, persuades the sheriff to allow Alvarez to escape with her, Lady Fair marries Randolph.
Director
D. W. Griffith
Cast
Richard Barthelmess
Clarine Seymour
Eugenie Besserer
Carol Dempster
Ralph Graves
Walter Long
George Fawcett
Kate Bruce
Rhea Haines
Adolph Lestina
Herbert Sutch
J. Wesley Warner
Film Details
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Notes
The character of Alvarez was suggested by the exploits of the bandit Joachin Murrieta. The film opened in New York on November 9, 1919. According to modern sources, James Smith was the film editor.
