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	Norman Kerry and Lillian Gish. Photograph: Courtesy of Silent Film Still Archive.

Cast: Lillian Gish [Annie Laurie], Norman Kerry [Ian MacDonald], Creighton Hale [Donald Campbell], Joseph Striker [Alastair], Hobart Bosworth [the MacDonald chieftain], Patricia Avery [Enid], Russell Simpson [Sandy], Brandon Hurst [the Campbell chieftain], David Torrence [Sir Robert Laurie], Frank Currier [Cameron of Lochiel]; Richard Alexander [a MacDonald clan member], Mary Gordon [the first midwife], Margaret Mann [the second midwife], Henry Kolker [the King’s representative], Major Roup [extra], Duke Morrison (John Wayne) [extra]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A John S. Robertson Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Josephine Lovett, from a screen story by Josephine Lovett. Settings (set design) by Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye. Wardrobe (costume design) by André-ani. Photography (cinematography) by Oliver Marsh (Oliver T. Marsh). Film editor, William Hamilton. Titles (intertitles written) by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / Released 11 May 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequence. / Gish’s third MGM film. The film was rediscovered in 1987 when a private collector donated a print to the Oregon Historical Society, who then turned it over to a national archive for preservation. Technicolor appears in the final reel. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute / Oregon Historical Society collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Betrayals - Color cinematography - Scotland - Scots - Weapons: Pistols, Swords

Listing updated: 11 August 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Eames-MGM p. 36; Eyman-Wayne p. 35; Higashi-Virgins pp. 22, 23; Weaver-Twenty p. 146 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Jim Roup.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.