The Silver Horde (1920 film)

1920 film by Frank Lloyd

  • J. E. Nash
  • Laurence Trimble
Based onThe Silver Horde
1909 novel
by Rex BeachProduced by
  • Rex Beach
  • Samuel Goldwyn
Starring
  • Myrtle Stedman
  • Curtis Cooksey
  • Betty Blythe
CinematographyWilliam C. Foster
Production
company
Eminent Authors Pictures
Distributed byGoldwyn Distributing Company
Release date
  • May 9, 1920 (1920-05-09)
Running time
80 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Silver Horde is a 1920 American silent adventure-drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Myrtle Stedman, Curtis Cooksey, and Betty Blythe.[1] It is based on the 1909 novel The Silver Horde by Rex Beach.[2][3]

Plot

A young man goes to Alaska to establish a salmon business.

Cast

  • Myrtle Stedman as Cherry Malotté
  • Curtis Cooksey as Boyd Emerson
  • Betty Blythe as Mildred Wayland
  • R.D. MacLean as Wayne Wayland
  • Robert McKim as Marsh
  • Hector V. Sarno as Constantine
  • Louis Durham as Swanson
  • Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as Thug
  • Neola May as Snowbird
  • Ervin Denecke as Thug
  • Fred R. Stanton as Big George Bolt
  • Carl Gerard as Alton Clyde
  • Murdock MacQuarrie as Richard Jones

Preservation status

  • This film is listed as surviving and preserved by MGM.[4]

References

  1. ^ Goble p. 30
  2. ^ The Silver Horde at silentera.com
  3. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:The Silver Horde
  4. ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Silver Horde

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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