The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
November 28, 1920Release Date
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
November 28, 1920Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Iris Hall
Evon Mason

Walker Thompson
Hugh Van Allen

Lawrence Chenault
Jefferson Driscoll

Mattie Wilkes
Mother Driscoll

Louis Dean
August Barr

Leigh Whipper
Tugi - an Indian Fakir

Jim Burris

E.G. Tatum
Abraham

James Burrough

George Catlin
Dick Mason

Edward Fraction
Peter Kaden (uncredited)

Oscar Micheaux
Director / Producer / Writer
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Details.
Release DateNovember 28, 1920
StatusReleased
Running Time59m
Filming LocationsFort Lee, United States
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The Symbol of the Unconquered (also known as The Wilderness Trail) is a 1920 silent "race film" drama produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. Premiering only a few years after The Birth of a Nation, the film was advertised for its negative depiction of the Ku Klux Klan. It is Micheaux's fourth feature-length film and, along with Within Our Gates, is among his early surviving works.
The film is based on the way perceptions of race shape human relationships. It contrasts the behavior of two white-passing characters towards other members of their race. Heroine Eve Mason (Iris Hall) moves to a frontier town and befriends her black neighbors, while the villainous Jefferson Driscoll scorns the company of all other black people, even rejecting his own mother. A romance grows between Eve and young black prospector Hugh Van Allen, but he believes Eve is white and hides his feelings from her. When Driscoll and friends enlist the KKK to run Van Allen off his oil-rich land, Eve saves the day by riding into town for help. Two years later, Van Allen is a successful oil king; Eve delivers a letter revealing her black ancestry, and the two are able to declare their love for each other at last.
The Symbol of the Unconquered was made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and released by Micheaux on November 29, 1920. A print of the film is extant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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