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The Frontier Child

The Frontier Child

1912Short⏱️ 20m
DramaShortWestern

John Adams is a pioneer, living in a log cabin with his wife and baby girl. He digs a bear pit. A big black bear falls crashing into it. An Indian comes upon the captured animal and shoots it and secures the skin. Adams meets him ...

Director
Thomas H. Ince
Writers
N/A
Stars
Francis Ford, Mildred Harris, Art Acord
Release Date
September 13, 1912
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Francis Ford
Francis Ford
as John Adams, a Trapper
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris
as Dot Adams - a Frontier Child
Art Acord
Art Acord
as The Chief's Son

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
101-Bison, New York Motion Picture

🎯 Categories

DramaShortWestern

⭐ Featured Review

A bona fide big feature picture
by deickemeyer2017-02-04

"A very desirable, two-reel Indian picture with the interest largely centered in a winsome little girl, daughter of a trapper. The child happens to be left alone in the 1og cabin by her mother who goes to visit a sick friend across the hills The father, looking after his crops, has had an altercation with an Indian and before he can get home, the whole tribe is out on the warpath. The picture is desirable, because the action is thrilling throughout both reels. It is not a one-reel picture padded into 2,000 feet of film; but a bona fide big feature picture. It is breathlessly dramatic and. thoug..."

📖 Synopsis

John Adams is a pioneer, living in a log cabin with his wife and baby girl. He digs a bear pit. A big black bear falls crashing into it. An Indian comes upon the captured animal and shoots it and secures the skin. Adams meets him ...