The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915 film)

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Scene from film
Directed by	Herbert Blaché
Produced by	Herbert Blaché Alice Guy
Written by	Aaron Hoffman Robert W. Service
Starring	Edmund Breese
Cinematography	Alfred Ortlieb
Production company	Popular Plays and Player Company
Distributed by	Metro Pictures
Release dates	May 2, 1915
Running time	Five reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent

The Shooting of Dan McGrew is a 1915 silent American drama film directed by Herbert Blaché, based on the poem of the same name.^[1] It was produced by Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the beginning of the 20th century.^[2][3][4]

Synopsis

The opening scene is of the interior of the Malamute saloon. Dangerous Dan McGrew and the lady that's known as Lou are seen seated at a table in one corner. A dog-sleigh stops outside, and its owner, a tired-looking, bedraggled miner, stumbles through the door. After treating the house, he sits down at the piano and begins to play. Into the soulful, stirring music he pours his pent up feelings of hatred, sorrow, love and regret. Years before, Jim Maxwell's best friend, Dan McGrew, had deceived his wife into believing him unfaithful. Their elopement completely unnerved him for a time. But finally he resolved to forget about it, until he next met Dan McGrew. Years afterwards, while prospecting, he met his daughter, now grown to womanhood and married. Her husband had been arrested for a murder committed by McGrew, and Maxwell assisted in effecting his escape. Just previous to the miner's entrance, Nell's husband had been captured in the saloon by the sheriff. As Maxwell finishes playing, he turns about, faces Dangerous Dan McGrew, and tells him, in uncomplimentary language, what he thinks of a man of his type. The lights go out, two guns blaze in the dark, and both men fall. Maxwell recovers and is reunited to Lou, his wife. McGrew dies.

— Motography (May 22, 1915)

Cast

• Edmund Breese as Jim Maxwell
• William A. Morse as Dan McGrew
• Kathryn Adams as Lou Maxwell
• Ordean Stark as Nell Maxwell (child) (as Audrine Stark)
• Evelyn Brent as Nell (adult) (as Betty Riggs)
• Wallace Stopp as Nell's Husband

References

1. "Silent Era:The Shooting of Dan McGrew". silentera.com. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
2. Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
3. "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
4. Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5

External links

• The Shooting of Dan McGrew at the Internet Movie Database