| The Golden Princess | |
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_-_1.jpg) Still with Betty Bronson and Neil Hamilton | |
| Directed by | Clarence G. Badger |
| Written by | Frances Agnew |
| Based on | "Tennessee’s Pardner" byBret Harte |
| Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Betty Bronson Neil Hamilton Phyllis Haver Joseph J. Dowling Edgar Kennedy George Irving Norma Wills |
| Cinematography | H. Kinley Martin |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
The Golden Princess is a 1925 AmericansilentWestern film directed byClarence G. Badger and written byFrances Agnew based upon an 1869 story byBret Harte. The film starsBetty Bronson,Neil Hamilton,Phyllis Haver,Joseph J. Dowling,Edgar Kennedy,George Irving, and Norma Wills. The film was released on October 5, 1925, byParamount Pictures.[1][2]
The 1869 Bret Harte story "Tennessee’s Pardner" has also been filmed asTennessee's Pardner (1916),The Flaming Forties (1924), andTennessee's Partner (1955).
As described in a film magazine reviews,[3] Bill Kent with his wife Kate and daughter Betty goes prospecting to California. Kate meets the rake Tom Romaine and elopes with him, taking Betty along. Kent and a boy, Tennessee Hunter, start in pursuit. Romaine kills Kent and runs off with the woman, leaving Betty with Hunter. Hunter takes the child to an old padre and goes away. The padre dies suddenly when Betty is a young woman and she goes to Poverty Gulch to find her father. No one knows her father. An old Indian woman takes her to Hunter, who when he learns who she is, takes her into his cabin and gives her in charge to another Indian woman. Hunter, his pal, and Betty, known now as the Princess, find gold and stake claims, opening theGolden Princess Mines. Romaine and Kate appear and discover the Princess. Romaine demands that Kate tell the girl he is her father so that he can share her wealth. Hunter recognizes him as the murderer and a fight at the mines ensues in which Hunter and Betty are imprisoned. Kate kills Romaine and in a second mine accident she is fatally wounded. She asks Hunter to care for Betty and never tell the girl who her mother was. Hunter's partner finds their cabin turned into a love nest and vacates in favor of the lovers.
BeforeThe Golden Princess could be exhibited inKansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of the hold up scene.[4]
With no prints ofThe Golden Princess located in any film archives,[5] it is alost film.[6]
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