Jordan Is a Hard Road

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Jordan Is a Hard Road
Directed by Allan Dwan
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Distributed by Triangle Distributing
Release date
December 19, 1915
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Jordan Is a Hard Road is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Dorothy Gish, Frank Campeau and Sarah Truax. The production was under the overall supervision of D. W. Griffith, and was the first film made by Dwan for Griffith's company Fine Arts. The evangelist Billy Sunday acted as a consultant. [1] Composer J. A. Raynes composed theatre organ music to accompany this film. [2] The film is set in Canada, with location shooting taking place for two weeks around Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. No prints are known to exist, and is therefore believed to be a lost film.

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Plot

A criminal is sentenced to jail and gives his daughter up for adoption. Years later, after his release, he finds her working in a revivalist mission in a frontier town. In order not to disillusion her, he pretends to be an old friend of her father. Later, in order to raise vital funds for the mission, he takes part in a final train robbery in which he is mortally wounded.

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References

  1. Lombardi p.48
  2. Franceschina, John (2018). "Raynes, J[ohn] A[rthur]". Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923, Volume 3: Biographical and Critical Commentary - Alphabetical Listings from Edgar Stillman Kelley to Charles Zimmerman. Bear Manor Media.

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