The Ancient Highway
| The Ancient Highway | |
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| Directed by | Irvin Willat |
| Screenplay by | James Shelley Hamilton Eve Unsell |
| Based on | The Ancient Highway by James Oliver Curwood |
| Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Jack Holt Billie Dove Montagu Love Stanley Taylor Lloyd Whitlock William A. Carroll |
| Cinematography | Alfred Gilks |
Production company | Famous Players-Lasky Corporation |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Ancient Highway is a 1925 American silent adventure film directed by Irvin Willat and written by James Shelley Hamilton and Eve Unsell based upon the novel of the same name by James Oliver Curwood. The film stars Jack Holt, Billie Dove, Montagu Love, Stanley Taylor, Lloyd Whitlock, and William A. Carroll. The film was released on November 8, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2]
Plot[]
It is based on the novel of the same title by James Curwood, published in 1925 by Grosset & Dunlap.
Cast[]
- Jack Holt as Cliff Brant
- Billie Dove as Antoinette St. Ives
- Montagu Love as Ivan Hurd
- Stanley Taylor as Gaspard St. Ives
- Lloyd Whitlock as John Denis
- William A. Carroll as Ambrose
- Marjorie Bonner as Angel Fanchon
- Christian J. Frank as George Bolden
Preservation[]
The Ancient Highway is presumed to be a lost film.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ "Movie Review - The Ancient Highway - THE SCREEN; Logs and Dynamite. - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ "The Ancient Highway". afi.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Ancient Highway
- ^ The Ancient Highway at Lost Film Files: Lost Paramount films - 1925
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Categories:
- 1925 films
- American films
- English-language films
- American adventure films
- 1925 adventure films
- Paramount Pictures films
- Films directed by Irvin Willat
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- Lost American films
- Northern (genre) films
- Lost adventure films
- 1925 lost films
- Films based on novels by James Oliver Curwood
- Silent adventure film stubs