Greater Love Hath No Man
About Greater Love Hath No Man
In the mining camp at Gatlach, New Mexico, Florence and Jake love each other. A new superintendent, Harry, arrives, and Florence falls in love with him. Mexican miners mutiny after he refuses their demands. Jake hears them plan to kill Harry. He warns the office as the mob arrives. With one horse in a narrow pass, Jake forces Harry to take Florence and ride for help. A cavalry troop comes back with them. Jake is already dead.
Cast & crew
More about Greater Love Hath No Man
Alice Guy-Blaché and Alexander Butler directed. Guy wrote the scenario from a story by Rowland Talbot. William Barker produced it for Solax. The Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company released the one-reeler on 30 June 1911. Romaine Fielding plays Jake. Vinnie Burns plays Florence. Ed Brady plays both a cowboy and a Mexican miner.
Themes
Making
Guy staged the mutiny as a chase into a pass, then a late cavalry rescue that arrives after Jake's last fight. Fielding, a Solax stock player, takes the man who does not get the girl.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print is preserved at the Library of Congress. A digital restoration was shown in the Whitney Museum's Alice Guy-Blaché retrospective, November 2009 to January 2010.
Notes
- The title quotes John 15:13, on a man laying down his life for his friends.
- Moving Picture World set the camp in eastern New Mexico and named the mine Gatlach.
- A print is at the Library of Congress.
- It was one of the Guy films digitally restored for the Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective, 6 November 2009 to 24 January 2010.
- It is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Jake warns the office as the armed miners reach the door.
- In the pass he puts Florence and Harry on the only horse.
- The cavalry returns to find he has already been killed.
Influenced by
- Rowland Talbot's story
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Greater Love Hath No Man (1911).webm)
- Library of Congress
