A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Gateway to the West
(1924) United States of America
B&W : [?] Two or Three? reels
Directed by Webster Campbell

Cast: Arthur Vinton [George Washington], Charles E. Graham [Richard Corbin], Walter P. Lewis [Christopher Gist], John Hickey [Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia], Louis D’Arclay (Louis Darclay) [Jumonville], Thornton Baston (Jack Baston) [DeVilliers], Stanley Walpole [William Pitt]

Chronicles of America Pictures production for Yale University Press; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Scenario by William Basil Courtney, from the book Conquest of New France by George M Wrong. Cinematography by William Miller. / Released 20 April 1924. / [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or 16mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Color-tinted. / The eighth film in the Yale University Press “The Chronicles of America” series.

Drama: Biography: Historical.

Survival status: Print exists in the Yale University film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 24 October 2022.

References: Pitts-Hollywood p. 313 : Website-IMDb.