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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

BACK TO GOD’S COUNTRY (1919)

Forgotten silent screen personality Nell Shipman was an animal trainer and something of a backwoods Mary Pickford. (Bears, racoons, squirrels, you name it; all tame in her hands.) In GOD’S COUNTRY (1919), she and her husband are abducted by a killer who whisks them away as he flees justice. With her husband in need of medical attention, Nell mushes to the nearest town ‘as the villain pursued her.’ Fortunately, in a sub-plot that grows out of a fascinating prologue, a devil dog gives chase, attacks the bad guys and saves the day. Nell, hubby & pooch move back to their forest Eden. The story’s all over the place, and the acting’s not much, but much of the location shooting is bewitchingly lovely. (for more Shipman, see SOMETHING NEW, below)

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