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Cecil B. DeMille's first feature, 1914, with Oscar Apfel: an English captain (Dustin Farnum) takes the blame for a theft, flees to the American West, and marries a Native woman, Nat-U-Rich (Red Wing). From the play. It is the first feature shot in Hollywood, more or less, and the template for every DeMille western that followed: honor, exile, a marriage the East will not accept. Famous Players-Lasky before the name. The West is a second chance that costs a person.
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DeMille's first feature and the barn in Hollywood. An English captain takes the blame, goes to Wyoming, marries Nat-U-Rich, and the plot clears her away so the white couple can end the picture. The racial machinery is the period's. Watch the ranch exteriors. The industry decided where it lived on this picture.
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