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The Squaw Man’s Son
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by E.J. Le Saint (Edward LeSaint)

Cast: Wallace Reid [Lord Effington, also known as Hal], Anita King [Wah-na-gi], Dorothy Davenport [Lady Edith Effington], Donald Bowles [John McCloud], C.H. Geldert (Clarence Geldert) [David Ladd], Frank Lanning [Appah], Ernest Joy [Lord Kerhill], Lucien Littlefield [Lord Yester], Mabel Van Buren [Lady Stuckley], Raymond Hatton [the storekeeper]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Charles Maigne, from the novel The Silent Call by Edwin Milton Royle. Assistant director, Sterett Ford. Cinematography by Allen M. Davey. / © 3 July 1917 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LP11050]. Released 26 July 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4241.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 October 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4241 : Website-IMDb.