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The Shooting of Dan McGrew
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Herbert Blaché

Cast: Edmund Breese [Jim Maxwell], William A. Morse [Dan McGrew], Kathryn Adams [Lou Maxwell], Audrine Stark [Nell Maxwell, as a child], Betty Riggs (Evelyn Brent) [Nell Maxwell], Wallace Stopp [Nell’s husband]

Popular Plays and Players, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Herbert Blaché and Alice Blaché (Alice Guy Blaché). Inspired by the poem “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by Robert W. Service. Cinematography by Alfred Ortlieb. / © 3 May 1915 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP6481]. Released 2 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some location cinematography was taken in Canada, Georgia, New York and Texas. The film was rereleased in the USA by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1918. The poem was subsequently filmed as The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924).

Drama: Northwoods.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 December 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.