Riddle Gawne


Riddle Gawne is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer and featuring Lon Chaney. Considered lost for decades, one of the five reels was found to have survived in a Russian archive, and is kept in the film archive of the Library of Congress.

Like many American films of the time, Riddle Gawne was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 1, scene of woman at bar, Reel 2, two scenes of woman at bar, scene of Riddle shooting man in back, the intertitle Blanche Dillon, former dance hall girl, now Bozzams housekeeper and all scenes young woman in Bozzams house, scene of Bozzam slugging Jess Cass with gun, Reel 3, man shooting Riddle from horse, the inertitle She may be a good nurse, but she aint the sort of woman I want etc., Reel 5, Bozzam shooting womans father, shooting Riddle, and vision scene with shooting of Riddles brother.

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