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The Trail to Yesterday is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Bert Lytell and Anna Q. Nilsson. It was produced by and distributed by Metro Pictures. It is based on a novel, The Trail to Yesterday (1913), by Charles Alden Seltzer.[1] A nitrate fragment of the print is held by EYE Institut/Filmmuseum, Netherlands.[2]

The Trail to Yesterday
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Directed by	Edwin Carewe
Written by	June Mathis (scenario)
Based on	The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer
Produced by	Metro Pictures
Starring	Bert Lytell Anna Q. Nilsson
Cinematography	Robert Kurrle
Distributed by	Metro Pictures
Release date	May 6, 1918
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[3] David Langford (Maupain) kills his partner and accuses the son of the murder. A fugitive from justice, Ned Keegles (Lytell) goes out west, determined on revenge. When he meets Sheila Langford (Nilsson), he forces her to marry him, and believes his revenge is complete. When he hears that Langford is Sheila's stepfather, he is sorry. He tells Sheila so and begs for her forgiveness, but his enemies have darkened his character and she is slow to forgive. The attempted murder of Ned's best friend forces him to talk. Sheila comes to understand the true state of affairs and becomes satisfied with her marriage and the forced ceremony.

Cast

• Bert Lytell as Ned "Dakota" Keegles
• Anna Q. Nilsson as Sheila Langford
• Harry S. Northrup as Jack Duncan
• Ernest Maupain as David Langford
• John A. Smiley as Ben Doubler
• Danny Hogan as "Texas" Blanco

Production

Some filming took place at Arivaca, Arizona.[4]

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Trail to Yesterday was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 3, of Dakota shooting Blanco and his falling and, in Reel 5, of Duncan shooting an old man at the door.[5]

References

External links

• The Trail to Yesterday at IMDb
• synopsis at AllMovie
• Seltzer, Charles Alden (1913), The Trail to Yesterday, New York: A. Burt Co., on the Internet Archive

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