Film Details

Canadian-American actress/writer/co-director Nell Shipman (1892-1970) stars in this exciting silent-era blockbuster that was remade twice in Hollywood. Set in Canada’s remote and sometimes frozen north, the film tells of a tough, resourceful young woman living with her father in the woods when she is forced to fight off the sexual advances of a brutal villain. Preceded at 5:00 by ethnographic “fieldwork footage” shot by writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. It documents rural African American life in the South during the late 1920s. Cleveland revival premiere. Both silent with music track. DCP. Total 85 min.