A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
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Blanche Sweet as Mary
Charles West as Jim
Joseph Graybill as John - Mary's Suitor
Francis J. Grandon as John's Friend / In Wagon Train
Alfred Paget as The Indian / In Wagon Train
John T. Dillon as Cavalry Officer
Robert Harron as In Wagon Train
Dell Henderson as Undetermined Role
D.W. Griffith Director
Bret Harte Story
Stanner E.V. Taylor Writer
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
United States 26 July 1911
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15 September 1928
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24 February 1927
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04 October 1915
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04 January 1915
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07 December 1919
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10 July 1911
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30 March 1911
Bill is discharged from Bar K Ranch and in his desperation decide to turn train robber. On his way to town he rescues Myrtle Mulligan, who has been driven from protection to the high branches of a tree by a vicious bull.
13 February 1911
A lost film. A Teacher is struggling to control her classroom. Her failure has evidently reached the ears of the members of the board of education, and a committee of the guardians of public instruction visits the school.
16 November 1911
The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a love letter to him from a rich married woman and is devastated.
25 October 1911
Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home.
02 February 1911
A young man inherits a business, struggles, but learns about love and life from the daughter of his rival.
17 April 1911
A lost film. Jose Almedo is a cattle thief. Marie, his wife, endeavors to assist him. Jose and his band plan to run off some cattle belonging to a rancher.
13 March 1911
Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.
04 September 1911
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24 August 1911
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband.
09 May 1911
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