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Pardners
(1910) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 995 feet
Directed by Frank McGlynn
Cast: Charles Ogle, J. Barney Sherry, [?] Francis Ford?
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / From s short story by Rex Beach. Cinematography by Henry Cronjager. / © 4 January 1910 by Edison Manufacturing Company [J137013, J137014, J137015, J137016]. Released 4 January 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Edison production number 6569.
Drama: Northwoods.
Synopsis: [From Edison promotional materials] Rex Beach’s famous story dramatized by the author. A story of human interest whose scenes are laid principally in the Alaskan gold fields. An exceptional film. Photography of the highest order. • [The Moving Picture World, 8 January 1910, page ?] It is almost unnecessary to give any description of this film, as it follows closely the widely read story as written by Mr. Beach. For those who are unfamiliar with the narrative it might be well to say that the picture deals with the fidelity and loyalty of Bill Joyce, a rough, rugged character in the mining camps of Alaska, who had formed a partnership with a young tenderfoot of the East, Justus Morrow. Through the machinations of a magazine writer and photographer, R. Alonzo Struthers, who has misrepresented Morrow’s actions in the North, a breach is caused between him and his beautiful wife, Olive Troop Morrow, an actress in the States. Struthers has been entrusted by Morrow with letters to his wife, which Struthers deliberately fails to deliver and, instead, shows a forged photograph to Mrs. Morrow, which is so compromising to her husband that she institutes divorce proceedings. Morrow is heartbroken when, after receiving no mail for a whole year, he finally receives a summons in the divorce suit. The thought of separation from the woman be loves and from his baby boy crushes the heart of the man, who has been sustained throughout his long, weary struggles in the gold-fields by the thought that the wealth for which he was striving would insure his little family a happy future. From this time forward his rugged ‘pardner’ devotes his energies to righting Morrow’s wrongs. How he succeeds is unfolded by the picture.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 15 January 1910, page 57] An excellent dramatization and reproduction of Rex E. Beach’s well known story. It is in every sense a heart story and the human interest is strongly maintained throughout the entire film. The interest is heightened by the accurate reproduction of the scenery in the Alaskan gold fields where the main action of the story occurs. This novel is so well known and has been read by so many that it seems needless to repeat it here. The Edison players have caught the spirit of the piece and have infused into it much of the characteristic energy which marks Mr. Beach’s novels. The complicated love story is well worked out and there seems to be a rather better interpretation of the author’s conception than ordinarily in these dramatizations. The acting is an improvement over that which is sometimes undertaken to interpret a modern novel, and is remarkably well sustained. The dramatic situations are managed in a way that leads up to the climaxes gradually, graphically presenting scenes and types characteristic of the wild life in that section of the world. Altogether this production is to be commended as a worthy representation of a good book.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Alaska Territory - Authors: Rex Beach (1877-1949)
Listing updated: 23 January 2025.
References: MovPicWorld-19100108 pp. 9, 20, 28 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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