The Great Divide (1925 film)

The Great Divide
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Directed by	Reginald Barker
Written by	Benjamin Glazer and Waldemar Young
Based on	The Great Divide; by William Vaughn Moody
Starring	Alice Terry; Conway Tearle; Wallace Beery
Cinematography	Percy Hilburn
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> February 15, 1925; ; ; ; ;
Running time	80 minutes ; 7,811 feet
Country	United States
Language	Silent; English intertitles
Budget	$318,000
Box office	$674,000

The Great Divide is a 1925 silent drama film produced and distributed by MGM and directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Alice Terry, Conway Tearle and Wallace Beery. It is based on the William Vaughn Moody play, being the second of three film adaptations. The play had been made famous on the 1906 Broadway stage with Margaret Anglin, Henry Miller, Laura Hope Crews and a pre-Griffith Henry B. Walthall in the principal parts.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Ruth Jordan is a gentlewoman rescued from a fate worse than death by Stephen Ghent—facing Dutch, the nastiest man in the West.

The film made a profit of $115,000.^[1]

The film is currently considered a lost movie. No negative or positive elements are known to have survived.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 H. Mark Glancy, 'MGM Film Grosses, 1924-28: The Eddie Mannix Ledger', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 12 No. 2 1992 p127-144 at p129
↑ 1906 Broadway Premiere of The Great Divide, at IBDb.com
↑ The Great Divide at silentera.com database

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