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| The Girl of the Golden West | |
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 Advertisement (1918) | |
| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Written by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Based on | The Girl of the Golden West 1905 play byDavid Belasco |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Starring | Mabel Van Buren |
| Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
| Edited by | Cecil B. DeMille W. Donn Hayes |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Girl of the Golden West is a surviving 1915 AmericanWesternsilentblack-and-white film directed byCecil B. DeMille. It was based on the 1905 playThe Girl of the Golden West byDavid Belasco. Prints of the film survive in theLibrary of Congress film archive.[1] It was the first of four film adaptations that have been made of the play.
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
Prints survive atGeorge Eastman Museum, theLibrary of Congress,Cineteca del Friuli [it] (Gemona),Academy Film Archive (Beverly Hills).[2][3]
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