''The Man She Brought Back'' is a 1922 American
silent Western
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film directed by
Charles Miller and starring
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe (born Earl Aldrich Fox; December 25, 1891 – December 10, 1973) was an American actor.
Early years
Foxe was born in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. He was educated at Ohio St ...
,
Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
C ...
and
Frederick Burton.
[Munden, p. 483] It is a
northern
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* North
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, portraying an officer of
Canada
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's
North-West Mounted Police
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.
Plot
Cast
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Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe (born Earl Aldrich Fox; December 25, 1891 – December 10, 1973) was an American actor.
Early years
Foxe was born in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. He was educated at Ohio St ...
as John Ramsey
* Doris Miller as Margo
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Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
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as Fenton
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Charles Mackay
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Early experience
MacKay i ...
as Major Shanley
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Donald Russ as Songatawa
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Harry Lee as Sergeant Hawkins
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Frederick Burton as Bruce Webster
Preservation
''The Man She Brought Back'' is currently considered a
Lost Film
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.
In February 2021, the film was cited by the
National Film Preservation Board
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on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
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1922 films
1922 lost films
1922 Western (genre) films
Silent American Western (genre) films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Charles Miller
Films set in Canada
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
English-language Western (genre) films
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