Over Silent Paths
About Over Silent Paths
A miner and his daughter mean to leave the desert with their gold. While she is away a wanderer demands a share, the old man is killed in the fight, and the killer takes the dust. She finds him collapsed, revives him, and brings him to town, where she tells the marshal her suspicion and is told to wait. The man, in love with her, proposes and shows the sacks. She knows her father's gold, takes his revolver while he embraces her, and marches him to the office.
Cast & crew
More about Over Silent Paths
D. W. Griffith directed, with a story credited to Stanner E. V. Taylor and photography by G. W. Bitzer. Biograph released it on 16 May 1910. The San Fernando Mission appears from three camera positions.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer covered the mission from three angles and also shot the desert camp and the town.
Preservation
A print survives. The Library of Congress catalog describes the surviving picture.
Notes
- Marion Leonard, Arthur V. Johnson, W. Chrystie Miller, Dell Henderson, Alfred Paget, Frank Powell, and Mack Sennett are in the company cast.
- The Biograph description has the wanderer strike the miner, whose head hits the ground, and then flee with the gold thinking he is alone.
- The Library of Congress summary has her swear vengeance, meet the collapsed killer on the road, and only later recognize the gold when he proposes.
- A road sign at a San Fernando intersection is also in the film.
Scenes
- The wanderer knocks the miner down over the gold and leaves him dead.
- The daughter finds the killer collapsed and brings him in.
- He shows her the sacks during a proposal, and she takes his gun.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-over-silent-paths)
