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The Buzzard’s Shadow
Also known as The Shadow of Fear in the USA
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Thomas Ricketts (Tom Ricketts)

Cast: Harold Lockwood [Sergeant Barnes], May Allison [Alice Corbett], William Stowell [Doctor Deschamps], Harry von Meter [Unitah, the half-breed], Alice Ann Rooney [Areep, the squaw], Dick La Reno [Colonel Sears], Betty Hart (Betty Harte) [Mrs. Sears], Virginia Fordyce [Barbara Corbett]

American Film Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [A Mutual Masterpicture]. / From a story by Kenneth Clark (Kenneth B. Clarke). / Released 9 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA in reedited version as The Shadow of Fear [?] on State Rights basis? by Arrow Film Corporation in 1918.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0553.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 August 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0553; Tarbox-Lost p. 248 : Website-IMDb.