The Right of the Strongest | |
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Directed by | Edgar Lewis |
Written by | H.H. Caldwell Frances Nimmo Greene Katherine Hilliker Doty Hobart |
Starring | E.K. Lincoln Helen Ferguson George Siegmann |
Cinematography | Vernon L. Walker |
Production company | Zenith Pictures |
Distributed by | Selznick Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Right of the Strongest is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and starring E.K. Lincoln, Helen Ferguson, and George Siegmann. [1] It was adapted from a 1913 novel of the same name by Frances Nimmo Greene. [2]
As described in a film magazine review, [3] John Marshall, young engineer, goes to Bullis Valley in the Alabama hills to secure lands for a big power project. The hill folks hink he is a revenue spy and plans are laid against his life. He is in love with a school teacher, Mary Dale. Her father was previously slain by the hill squatters when they suspected him of plying the trade of government informant. She struggles through a storm to reach his cabin to warn him. A lynching party, headed by Trav Williams arrives. Williams and Marshall agree to fight it out and battle furiously. Marshall's men from the construction camp rush to their chief's rescue. He weds Mary.
With no prints of The Right of the Strongest located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.
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