The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)

59m
Running Time

November 28, 1920
Release Date

The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)

59m
Running Time

November 28, 1920
Release Date

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Plot.

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.

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Release Date
November 28, 1920

Status
Released

Running Time
59m

Filming Locations
Fort Lee, United States

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This Movie Is About.

black white relations
silent film
mixed race child

Wiki.

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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