Pauline Starke

FLOWER OF THE NORTH

Vitagraph, 1921.  Directed by David Smith.  Camera:  Stephen Smith, Jr.  With Pauline Starke, Henry B. Walthall, Harry Northrup.

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In the Canadian forest lives D'Arcambal with his daughter Jeanne (known as "The Flower of the North") and a half breed servant, Pierre.  Philip Whittemore, a young American, arrives and forms the Northern Fish and Development Company, backed by Brokaw, a New York capitalist.  Brokaw, however, sends Thorpe, an unscrupulous associate, with instructions to delay the work of the company, and D'Arcambal revokes Whittemore's right-of-way through his holdings.

Thorpe convinces Jeanne, who is unaware that her mother eloped with a lover before she was born, that he is her father. Whittemore rescues Jeanne from drowning, and when Thorpe and his gang attack Whittemore's camp, Jeanne brings a band of friendly Indians to Whittemore's aid.  Thorpe is defeated, Jeanne learns that D'Arcambal is really her father, and she is united with Philip.

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