Heart of the Wilds

Heart of the Wilds
Still with Ferguson and Meighan
Directed by	Marshall Neilan
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Written by	Charles Maigne (scenario)
Based on	Jen of the Triple Chevron by Gilbert Parker
Starring	Elsie Ferguson
Cinematography	Walter Stradling
Distributed by	Artcraft Pictures
Release dates	August 18, 1918 (1918-08-18)
Running time	50 minutes; 5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

a scene in the film.

Heart of the Wilds is a lost^[1] 1918 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Elsie Ferguson. The story is from "Pierre and His People", by Gilbert Parker, which Edgar Selwyn also based his play Pierre of the Plains on. Ferguson had become a star in 1908 in Selwyn's Broadway play.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Elsie Ferguson as Jen Galbraith
Thomas Meighan as Sergeant Tom Gellatly
Joseph W. Smiley as Peter Galbraith (credited as Joseph Smiley)
Matt Moore as Val Galbraith
E. L. Fernandez as Pierre (billed Escamillo Fernandez)
Sidney D'Albrook as Grey Cloud

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Heart of the Wilds was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors modified the plot of this film by requiring cuts in Reel 2 of Val drawing a gun from case, shooting Grey Cloud, and putting the gun away after the shooting, the cuts intending to eliminate the entire idea that the Indian was shot by Val.^[4] The board also cut, in Reel 4, Jen shooting Sergeant Tom Gellatly of the mounted police.^[4]

References

↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Heart of the Wilds
↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Heart of the Wilds
↑ Pierre of the Plains as produced on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre, October 12 1908 to November 1908; IBDb.com
1 2 "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald (New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company) 7 (14): 35. September 28, 1918.

External links

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Films directed by Marshall Neilan

The Bottle Imp (1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
The Little Princess (1917)
Stella Maris (1918)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
M'Liss (1918)
Hit-The-Trail Holliday (1918)
Heart of the Wilds (1918)
Out of a Clear Sky (1918)
Three Men and a Girl (1919)
The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
In Old Kentucky (1919)
Dinty (1920)
Bits of Life (1921)
The Lotus Eater (1921)
Minnie (1922)
The Eternal Three (1923)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1924)
The Sporting Venus (1925)
The Great Love (1925)
The Skyrocket (1926)
Mike (1926)
Diplomacy (1926)
Everybody's Acting (1926)
Her Wild Oat (1927)
Take Me Home (1928)
Taxi 13 (1928)
Three-Ring Marriage (1928)
The Awful Truth (1929)
Tanned Legs (1929) (*uncredited)
The Vagabond Lover (1929)
Sweethearts on Parade (1930)
Forever Yours (1930)
Ex-Sweeties (1931) (*short)
Catch-As Catch-Can (1931) (*short)
War Mamas (1931) (*short)
Social Register (1934)
Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
This Is the Life (1935)
Sing While You're Able (1937)
Swing It Professor (1937)
Thanks for Listening (1937)

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