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The movie ''The Lonely Trail'' (1922) is here available for view.
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Christina McNulty was a silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...
actress. She is best remembered as the female lead (character Margaret Alan) in the film ''The Lonely Trail'' (1922), a western romance and melodrama where a young woman falls in love with her American Indian wilderness guide after he saves her from an outlaw.''American Film Institute Catalog'', Feature Films, 1921-1930, University of California Press © 1971 American Film Institute (1997 edition), p. 448,
While film portrayals of interracial love affairs between American Indians and Americans of European descent were in the early 20th century U.S. quite controversial (anti-miscegenation laws
Anti-miscegenation laws or miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage and sometimes also sex between members of different races. Anti-misc ...
still predominating in the states), the moviegoing public found the films titillating, and they were quite popular. The prototype film of the theme was Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cin ...
’s The Squaw Man (1914 film)
''The Squaw Man'' (known as ''The White Man'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1914 American silent Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel, and starring Dustin Farnum. It was DeMille's directorial debut and one of the first ...
. This film was also the first picture that DeMille directed. DeMille remade ''The Squaw Man'' (1914) twice more well into the motion picture sound age.
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*The movie ''The Lonely Trail'' (1922) is here available for view.
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