The Wild Girl of the Sierras
Cast & Crew
Paul Powell
Mae Marsh
Wilfred Lucas
Mazie Radford
Olga Grey
Robert Harron
Film Details
Synopsis
A girl of eighteen lives with two grizzly bears in a cave in the California Sierras and plays with rabbits and birds. When gambler Jim Hamilton and his mistress try to interest wealthy Bob Jordan in purchasing an abandoned mine in the Sierras, Jordan, thinking that the girl clothed in leaves and feathers is an animal, shoots her in the arm. He nurses the girl, who cannot speak, and she repays him with a slave-like devotion. At the mine, Hamilton remembers that fifteen years earlier, Indians attacked his home while he was away and killed his family. The wild girl, really Hamilton's daughter, remembers fleeing from the raid into the woods. Although Hamilton's mistress tries to seduce Jordan, he refuses to buy the mine. Hamilton then tries to rob Jordan at gunpoint, but the girl has buried Jordan's money belt as a prank. Jordan's anger causes her to return to her cave, but later they reconcile, and she returns the belt. After Hamilton's mistress leaves with another man, Hamilton returns to the city, and Jordan starts back with the girl following at his heels.
Director
Paul Powell
Cast
Mae Marsh
Wilfred Lucas
Mazie Radford
Olga Grey
Robert Harron
James O'shea
Film Details
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Notes
According to reviews, this film was based on a legend of the Sierras.
