Out of the Snows
{{short description|1920 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Out of the Snows
| image = Out of the Snows (1920) - 2.jpg
| caption =
| director = Ralph Ince
| producer = Lewis J. Selznick
| based_on =
| writer = E. Lord Corbett
Irvin J. Martin
| narrator =
| starring = Ralph Ince
Zena Keefe
Gladys Coburn
| music =
| cinematography =William J. Black
| editing =
| studio = National Picture Theatres
| distributor = Selznick Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1920|08|23}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Out of the Snows is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Ince, Zena Keefe and Gladys Coburn.Connelly p.393 It was filmed on location in Lake Placid, New York, with Whiteface Mountain as a backdrop.{{Cite book |last=MacKenzie |first=Mary |title=The Plains of Abraham. A History of North Elba and Lake Placid |year=2007 |editor-last=Manchester |editor-first=Lee |location=Utica, New York |pages=360 |chapter=Lake Placid and the Silent Film Industry}}
Plot
A member of the Canadian Mounted Police, Robert Holliday is engaged to Ruth Hardy, a young woman orphaned after the death of her father. On the eve of their wedding, Ruth learns from John Blakeman that he and her father had been partners in the fur trade, until her father was killed by Robert, her fiancé, during a shootout between police and smugglers. Shaken by that revelation, Ruth sends Robert a suicide note and leaves with Blakeman for a trading post located on Sampson's Pass. When Robert is later sent on duty at the pass, he sets out in search of his ex-girlfriend. Blakeman warns him to stay away. Meanwhile, Anitah, a mountie who is in love with Robert, kills a man who was harassing her, and Robert is ordered to arrest her; he, after managing to catch her, learns from Anitah that the real killer of Hardy was Blakeman himself. The mountie then sets out on the trail of the hunter, who will be killed while trying to escape. Now, with the evidence of Blakeman's guilt provided to him by Anitah, Robert can return to Ruth and reconcile with her.
Cast
- Ralph Ince as Robert Holliday
- Zena Keefe as Anitah
- Pat Hartigan as John Blakeman
- Gladys Coburn as Ruth Hardy
- Huntley Gordon as Sgt. Graham
- Red Eagle as Lone Deer
- Jacques Suzanne as Antoine Dufresne
Reviews
The critic for the Calgary Herald called the film "especially interesting" because of the "fast-growing practice of movie making by a director and a story teller working hand in hand on the spot."{{Cite news |date=June 11, 1921 |title=Action Crisp as Far North Country "Out of the Snows" |pages=13 |work=Calgary Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/478990644/?terms=%22out%20of%20the%20snows%22&match=1 }}
References
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Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0196820}}
{{Ralph Ince}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Ralph Ince
Category:Selznick Pictures films
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