The Midlanders (1920)
1h
Running Time
December 1, 1920Release Date
Plot.
Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat captain Lindstrom. So that she can have a more settled life, he sends her to live with his brother, John Lindstrom, a squatter in a small river valley town. There she develops into a beautiful woman and wins a newspaper's beauty contest, attracting an offer from a theatrical producer, which she accepts. She rapidly achieves success, but when she returns to town, she is spurned.
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Cast & Crew.
Bessie Love
Aurelie Lindstrom
Truman Van Dyke
Harlan Van Hart
Sydney Deane
Judge Van Hart
Frances Raymond
Mrs. Van Hart
Curt Rehfeld
Captain Lindstrom
C. Norman Hammond
John Lindstrom
Lloyd Bacon
Wiley Curran
Jack Donovan
Arney Vance
Ida May Park
Director / Writer
Joseph De Grasse
Director
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
Charles Tenney Jackson
Novel
King D. Gray
Director of Photography
Andrew J. Callaghan
Producer
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
partially lost film
fragment
Wiki.
The Midlanders is a 1920 American silent drama film starring Bessie Love and directed by husband and wife duo Joseph De Grasse and Ida May Park. It was produced by Andrew J. Callaghan Productions and distributed by Federated Film Exchanges of America. It is based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Charles Tenney Jackson, published by Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Only a small fragment of this film is known to survive.