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The Trail to Yesterday
(1918) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Edwin Carewe

Cast: Bert Lytell [Ned ‘Dakota’ Keegles], Anna Q. Nilsson [Sheila Langford], Harry S. Northrup [Jack Duncan], Ernest Maupain [David Langford], John A. Smiley [Ben Doubler], Danny Hogan [‘Texas’ Blanco]

Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [All-Star Series]. / Scenario by June Mathis, from the novel The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer. Cinematography by Robert Kurrle. / © 29 April 1918 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP12349]. Released 6 May 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some location cinematography was shot near Arivaca, Arizona.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 December 2023.

References: ClasIm-226 p. 40 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.