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| Title: | BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY |
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| Title year: | 1919 |
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| Also known as: | L'INSTINCT QUI VEILLE (France) |
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| Unused title(s): | The Pulse Of The Earth (working title) |
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| Our Lady Of The Big Snows (working title) |
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| Original dialogue(s): | (Silent) |
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| Intertitle language: | English |
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| Running time: | 72 min 29 sec |
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| Description: | The film tells the tale of a ferocious great Dane named Wapi who gets a chance to repay the only kindness he has ever known. In the Canadian 'northwoods' Dolores LeBeau (Nell Shipman) meets and later marries Peter (Wheeler Oakman), a government inspector and writer. Peter and Dolores board a trading ship and travel to the Arctic. The captain turns out to be Rydal (Wellington Playter), the man who killed her father. Rydal arranges for Peter to be seriously injured. At a remote Arctic trading post Dolores obtains help and in the process befriends Wapi. With dogs and a sledge, Dolores and Peter leave for the Royal Northwest Mounted Police post at Fort Confidence some 200 miles distant but Rydal follows them. Wapi, who has followed her, goes back to stop Rydal by savaging his dog team. Peter and Dolores are able to reach Fort Confidence and safety. |
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BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY
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| Director(s): | David M. Hartford | |
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| Bert Van Tuyle | Not credited |
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| Screen writer(s): | Nell Shipman | |
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| James Oliver Curwood | |
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| Writing source: | James Oliver Curwood | | Wapi, the Walrus |
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| Actor(s): | Nell Shipman | | Dolores LeBeau |
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| Charles Arling | | Sealskin Blake |
| Wheeler Oakman | | Peter Burke |
| Wellington Playter | Plater | Rydal |
| Roy Laidlaw | Not credited | Baptiste LeBeau |
| Charles Murphy | | Rydal's sidekick |
| William G. Colvin | | first Mountie |
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| Executive producers(s): | Ernest Shipman | |
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| Editor(s): | Cyril Gardner | |
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| Musician(s): | Paul M. Sarazan | |
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| Photography: | Joseph B. Walker | J. M. Walker |
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| Dal Clawson | |
| Support: | 35mm bw |
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| Aspect ratio: | 1.33:1/4:3 (Full Frame) |
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| Release: | U.S. | September 29, 1919 |
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| Toronto (Strand) | October 27, 1919 |
| Location(s): | Lesser Slave Lake |
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| Calgary (Alta.) |
| Kern River |
| SanFrancisco (Calif.) |
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| Studio: | Brunton Studios (Hollywood) |
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| Laboratory: | Bloom Laboratories (LosAngeles) |
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| Distribution area: | Canada | Regal Films (for First National) |
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| Quebec | Regal Films (for First National) |
| US | First National |
| CFFD Reference No.: |
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| Mikan No.: | 2894160 |
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