God's Great Wilderness
{{short description|1927 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = God's Great Wilderness
| image = God's Great Wilderness ad from Motion Picture News, January to March 1927 (page 18 crop).jpg
| caption =
| director = David Hartford
| producer = David Hartford
| based_on =
| writer = Spottiswoode Aitken
Frances Nordstrom
| narrator =
| starring = Lillian Rich
Joseph Bennett
Russell Simpson
| music =
| cinematography = Walter L. Griffin
| editing = Walter L. Griffin
| studio = David Hartford Productions
| distributor = American Cinema Association
| released = {{Film date|1927|03|08}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
| budget =
| gross =
}}
God's Great Wilderness is a 1927 American silent northern drama film directed by David Hartford and starring Lillian Rich, Joseph Bennett and Russell Simpson.Munden p.300[https://silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GodsGreatWilderness1927.html God's Great Wilderness at silentera.com]
Plot
Amongst lumber workers, a new family arrive and clash with one of the older settlers.
Cast
- Lillian Rich as Mary Goodheart
- Joseph Bennett as Dick Stoner
- Russell Simpson as Richard Stoner
- Mary Carr as Emma Stoner
- John Steppling as Noah Goodheart
- Rose Tapley as Susan Goodheart
- Edward Coxen as Paul Goodheart
- Tom Bates as Peter Marks
- Wilbur Higby as Ward Maxwell
- Roy Laidlaw as Circuit Rider
Preservation
References
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Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
{{commons category|God's Great Wilderness}}
- {{IMDb title|0017940}}
- [https://www.allmovie.com/movie/gods-great-wilderness-vm36891 allmovie]
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by David Hartford
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language drama films
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