Riddle Gawne

Riddle Gawne (1918)

When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.

Erscheinungsdatum
1918-08-03
Laufzeit
50 Min.
Genres
Action, Western
Regie
Lambert Hillyer, William S. Hart

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Riddle Gawne is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer, and featuring Hart, Katherine MacDonald and Lon Chaney. The film was co-produced by Hart and Thomas H. Ince. The screenplay was written by Charles Alden Seltzer from his earlier novel The Vengeance of Jefferson Gawne. Chaney historian Jon C. Mirsalis claims that Hart contributed greatly to the screenplay but all other sources credit the writing of the screenplay solely to Seltzer.

Production

Lon Chaney had just left Universal Pictures over a salary dispute before getting hired to appear in Riddle Gawne (at the much higher salary of $125 per week). William S. Hart did not initially want Chaney to play the villain because he felt Chaney was too short to be imposing. It was Lambert Hillyer who talked Hart into using Chaney for the role.

Parts of the film were shot on location in the Santa Monica Mountains and in Chatsworth, California, from June 14 to early July. A western ranch house was built on a dairy farm for the production and later burned to the ground for a scene in the film.

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