Danger Trail (1917)
John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
- Date of release
- 1917-04-30
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Frederick A. Thomson
Casting
- H.B. Warner — John Howland
- Violet Heming — Meleese Thoreau
- Lawson Butt — Jean Croisset (as W. Lawson Butt)
- Arthur Donaldson — Pierre Thoreau
- Richard Thornton — Max Thoreau
- Harold Howard — MacDonald
- William F. Cooper — Jackpine (as William Cooper)
- S.M. Unander — Thorne
- Arthur Cozine — François Thoreau
Interesting facts
The Danger Trail is a lost 1917 American silent adventure film directed by Frederick A. Thomson and starring H.B. Warner, Violet Heming and Lawson Butt. It is based on the 1910 novel of the same title by James Oliver Curwood. It is a Northern (genre), set during the construction of the Hudson Bay Railway in Canada.
Production
It was shot in Upstate New York (Port Henry, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake) and Chicago.
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