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A hard working miner, Steve Denton (played by Hart), has become rich from years of prospecting. He takes his fortune and leaves to visit his ill mother, Mrs. Denton (played by Claire).
In the town of Yellow Ridge, however, he is detained by a seductive dance hall girl named Trixie (played by Glaum). Also known as "the firefly," Trixie not only cheats him out of his gold, but also conceals a message that was wired to him by his dying mother.
Learning the next day that his mother is dead, Denton is infuriated about being cheated and betrayed by Trixie, who pretended to be good, and other false friends. In his rage, he kills Trixie's lover, Chip Emmett (played by Mayall), and kidnaps her. Dragging her by the hair of her head, he takes her into the desert. Enslaving Trixie in his desert hideaway, Denton turns his back on "white civilization." He hates all white men and women and assumes the leadership of a band of Indian and Mexican bandits.
Two years later, a wagon-train of Mississippi farmers who are lost and dying in the desert appeal to Denton for help. He refuses to assist them. He is secretly visited that night by Mary Jane Garth (played by Love), an innocent and virtuous young woman among the migrants who bravely confronts the Indians and Mexicans.
She pleads their cause and expresses her belief that no white man would refuse to protect a woman in distress. Deeply moved, Denton is redeemed. He guides the wagon-train out of the desert and then resumes his wanderings.
[edit] Tags:William S. Hart,Thomas H. Ince,C. Gardner Sullivan,Gertrude Claire,Charles K. French,Louise Glaum,Bessie Love,1916,Silent,English,Intertitles,Silent Era,Western,Motion Picture,Directed,Produced,Screenplay,Reginald Barker,Library Of Congress,Museo Del Cine,Buenos Aires,Argentina,Herschel Mayall,Ernest Swallow,Enid Bennett,Jean Hersholt,John Gilbert,Screenwriter,Mae Marsh,D.w. Griffith, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cast | 2>
William S. Hart as Steve Denton
Gertrude Claire as Mrs. Denton
Charles K. French as "Ivory" Wells
Louise Glaum as Trixie, "the firefly"
Herschel Mayall as Chip Emmett
Ernest Swallow as Mexican Pete
Bessie Love as Mary Jane Garth
Enid Bennett in an undetermined role
Jean Hersholt
John Gilbert as an extra (uncredited)
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Hart was given a screenplay by the screenwriter C. Gardner Sullivan in which the hero had, according to Hart, "no motive for his hardness." He argued that the audience needed an explanation. Sullivan preferred the idea that his ruthless personality was simply a given, but eventually accepted Hart's wishes.
Hart wanted Mae Marsh for the role as Mary Jane, but Marsh was working on a D.W. Griffith movie at the time. Griffith recommended a new actress, Bessie Love.[4]
The movie was made at the height of Hart's career, but was unusual because he played a ruthless individual described as "hard as flint." As the title suggests, the movie draws on racial ideologies of the era. Hart stated that the central character, Steve Denton, was "a white man, who, foreswearing his race, makes outlaw Mexicans his comrades and allows white women to be attacked by them."[5]
Hart believed this movie to be "one of the best westerns ever made."[5]
[edit] | Tags: References | 2>
^ The Aryan at silentera.com
^ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/movies/05metropolis.html
^ William Hart, My Life - East and West (1929) p. 220
^ a b Ronald L. Davis, William S. Hart: Projecting the American West, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, p. 84.
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The Aryan at the Internet Movie Database
The Aryan at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Aryan&oldid=490666094"
Categories: 1916 films1910s Western filmsAmerican silent feature filmsBlack-and-white filmsFilms directed by William S. HartFilms about race
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