The Westerners
Cast & Crew
Edward Sloman
Roy Stewart
Robert Mckim
Wilfred Lucas
Mildred Manning
Mary Jane Irving
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Synopsis
Half-breed Indian Michael Lafond vows vengeance after scout Jim Buckley forces him off a wagon train for insulting a white woman. Michael kills Prue Welch, the wife of a New England professor, and kidnaps her baby daughter Molly. Michael raises Molly as his own daughter, then, fifteen years later, he opens a dance hall, and forces Molly to becomes a dance hall girl. He plots to ruin Jim, now a leading citizen of the Black Hills community, and his scheming causes Jim to have to fight his way out of the settlement. Jim is aided in the struggle by Cheyenne Harry, Molly's suitor. Michael overtakes Jim on horseback, but is thrown over an embankment by Jim and killed. Jim returns to find Molly happy with Cheyenne Harry.
Director
Edward Sloman
Cast
Roy Stewart
Robert Mckim
Wilfred Lucas
Mildred Manning
Mary Jane Irving
Graham Pettie
Frankie Lee
Clark Comstock
Dorothy Hagar
Crew
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White's novel was first published in serial form in Munsey's Magazine. The film had several pre-release exhibitions, the earliest of which began on June 15, 1919 in Los Angeles and August 3, 1919 in New York.
