Kindred of the Dust

Kindred of the Dust
Movie poster
Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Produced by	R. A. Walsh Co.
Written by	James T. O'Donohoe (screenplay)
Based on	Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. Kyne
Starring	Miriam Cooper Ralph Graves
Cinematography	H. Lyman Broening Charles Van Enger
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release dates	February 27, 1922 (1922-02-27)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Kindred of the Dust is a 1922 American silent film directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring his wife Miriam Cooper. It was based upon the novel of the same name by Peter B. Kyne. The film was the last independent picture for Walsh's production company, and the last film he and Cooper would make together.^[1] Today it is one of Walsh's earliest surviving features, and is one of only two non-D. W. Griffith features of Cooper's that still is known to survive.

Plot

Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan (Cooper) returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging town. She is treated as an outcast by all save Donald (Graves), her childhood sweetheart who happens to be the son of a millionaire. Their romance is thwarted by his parents, but after she nurses him to recovery from an apparently fatal illness they are married. The subsequent arrival of a son prompts a family reconciliation.

Cast

Miriam Cooper as Nan of the Sawdust Pile
Ralph Graves as Donald McKaye
Lionel Belmore as The Laird of Tyee
Eugenie Besserer as Mrs. McKaye
Maryland Morne as Jane McKaye
Elizabeth Waters as Elizabeth McKaye
William J. Ferguson as Mr. Daney
Caroline Rankin as Mrs. Daney
Patrick Rooney as Dirty' Dann OLeary
John Herdman as Caleb Brent
Bruce Guerin as Little Donald

Production

During filming Cooper accidentally gazed into a stage light causing her permanent eye damage that lasted until the end of her life.^[2] The film ended up being Walsh's final independent production and was the last time Cooper and Walsh (who had made several films together) worked together.^[1] The film was one of Cooper's last films as she retired in 1923.

Release

The film was released on February 27, 1922. Cooper felt it was mediocre but the film performed decently at the box office.^[1] The film still exists and was restored in 2004, is one of the few films from Walsh's early years to survive, and is also one of only two surviving films from Cooper's starring years. The film has been screened at a few film festivals since its restoration but has not been released for home video.

References

1 2 3 Cooper, Miriam (1973). Dark Lady of the Silents. Bobbs Merrill. p. 172. ISBN 0-672-51725-6.
↑ Cooper, Miriam (1973). Dark Lady of the Silents. Bobbs Merrill. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-672-51725-6.

External links

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Films directed by Raoul Walsh

The Life of General Villa (1914)
Regeneration (1915)
Peer Gynt (1915)
Carmen (1915)
The Serpent (1916)
The Silent Lie (1917)
Betrayed (1917)
The Conqueror (1917)
The Pride of New York (1917)
The Prussian Cur (1918)
Evangeline (1919)
Kindred of the Dust (1922)
Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
East of Suez (1925)
The Spaniard (1925)
The Wanderer (1925)
The Lucky Lady (1926)
The Lady of the Harem (1926)
What Price Glory? (1926)
The Monkey Talks (1927)
Sadie Thompson (1928)
The Red Dance (1928)
Me, Gangster (1928)
The Cock-Eyed World (1929)
Hot for Paris (1929)
The Big Trail (1930)
The Man Who Came Back (1931)
Women of All Nations (1931)
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Wild Girl (1932)
Me and My Gal (1932)
Sailor's Luck (1933)
Hello, Sister! (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Under Pressure (1935)
Baby Face Harrington (1935)
Every Night at Eight (1935)
Klondike Annie (1936)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Spendthrift (1936)
Artists and Models (1937)
Hitting a New High (1937)
O.H.M.S. (1937)
Jump for Glory (1937)
College Swing (1938)
St. Louis Blues (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Dark Command (1940)
They Drive by Night (1940)
High Sierra (1941)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Manpower (1941)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Desperate Journey (1942)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Background to Danger (1943)
Northern Pursuit (1943)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Salty O'Rourke (1945)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
The Man I Love (1947)
Pursued (1947)
Cheyenne (1947)
Silver River (1948)
Fighter Squadron (1948)
One Sunday Afternoon (1948)
Colorado Territory (1949)
White Heat (1949)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Along the Great Divide (1951)
Distant Drums (1951)
Glory Alley (1952)
The World in His Arms (1952)
Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
The Lawless Breed (1953)
Sea Devils (1953)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Gun Fury (1953)
Saskatchewan (1954)
Battle Cry (1955)
The Tall Men (1955)
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
The King and Four Queens (1956)
Band of Angels (1957)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
A Private's Affair (1959)
Esther and the King (1960)
Marines, Let's Go (1961)
A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Peter B. Kyne screen credits

The Three Godfathers (1916)
Marked Men (1919)
The Valley of the Giants (1919)
Action (1921)
Red Courage (1921)
Brothers Under the Skin (1922)
Kindred of the Dust (1922)
The Go-Getter (1923)
Loving Lies (1924)
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
Pals in Paradise (1926)
The Understanding Heart (1927)
Heroes of the West (1932 serial)
Gordon of Ghost City (1933)
Three Godfathers (1936)
Flaming Frontiers (1938 serial)
3 Godfathers (1948)

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