Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1918)

CAST AND STORY OF “THE SQUAW MAN” For Use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or for General Publicity in the Exploitation of Cecil B. De Mille’s New Photoplay AN ARTCRAFT PICTURE Cecil B, De Millers Artcraft Production of ^^The Squaw Man” Artistic, Powerful and Beautiful Story is Based upon Edwin Milton Royle’s Successful Stage Play and is Filled With Human Interest, Pathos, Humor and Charm to a Remarkable Degree T TM WYNNEGATE, with his U cousin Henry, Earl of Kerhill, is co-trustee of an orphanage fund. Henry, harrassed by debt, loses the fund in stock speculation, confesses his guilt to his mother who appeals to Jim to shoulder his .cousin’s crime and thus save the family name. Jim loves Diana, Henry’s wife and at first refuses, but finally to shield Diana from disgrace, disappears, leaving Diana and the world to believe that he is an embezzler. Jim turns up in Wyoming where under an assumed name he buys a small ranch and begins the life of an exile. He is involved in a feud with Cash Hawkins, a bad man and cattle rustler whom he catches branding his cattle and later he saves Naturich, daughter of Tabywana, an old Ute Indian chief, from Hawkins. Jim is surprised by Hawkins and his band in a saloon just as Diana, her husband Henry and Sir John Applegate, who are touring the West, appear on the scene. Jim protects Diana from Hawkins, and she instantly recognizes him. Hawkins is driven off by Jim, but not before Sir John denounces the latter as an embezzler. Diana whispers that she believes him innocent but Jim denies his identity and sends the travellers away. Hawkins returns to the saloon to kill Jim, but he is himself slain by Naturich who loves Jim and who shoots his assailant from ambush. She confesses her crime to Jim, but when the Sheriff attempts to “THE SQUAW MAN” The Cast Jim Wynnegate ... Elliott Dexter Naturich Ann Little Diana, Henry’s Wife Katherine MacDonald Big Bill Theodore Roberts Cash Hawkins Jack Holt Henry, Jim’s Cousin Thurston Hall Sir John Applegate Tully Marshall Dean of Trentham Herbert Standing Bud Hardy• Edwin Stevens Dowager Countess Helen Dunbar Fletcher Winter Hall Lady Mabel Julia Faye Tabywana .Noah Beery Little Hal Pat Moore Grouchy . .Jim Mason Happy Monte Blue Shorty William Brunton Bull Cowan Charles Ogle Kid Clarke Guy Oliver Nick Jack Herbert Lord Tommy M. Hallward Solicitor ....... Clarence Geldart arrest Jim for murder, Big Bill proves by circumstantial evidence that Jim could not have slain Hawkins. As Jim will not denounce Naturich, the matter rests. While hunting stray cattle, Jim falls into Death’s Hole and is rescued by Naturich who nurses him devoted 1}^ AVhen he is convalescent, the inevitable happens, and when he sees Naturich sew ing baby moccasins, he promptly marries her and becomes a squaw man, a pariah of the West. Little Hal is born and the years pass. Meanwhile, Henry, who is a hunter of big game, is fatally mauled by a lion and he exonerates Jim in the presence of Diana and Sir John. Henry dies and as Jim is now Earl of Kerhill, Diana returns to Wyoming to find him and fetch him back to England. Meanwhile, things have Hot fared well for Jim. His cattle have died and his place is run down. He is annoyed by the Sheriff who is still in search of Hawkins’ slayer, with the trail leading to Jim’s door. His only comfort is Little Hal, the pet of the ranch. Diana and Sir John appear and Jim learns that he is the Earl of Kerhill. Sir John insists that Hal must be sent to England to be educated even though Jim himself renounces his title. Jim consents to this, but Naturich cannot understand. She refuses to give up her boy. When the lad is taken away by Diana. Naturich gets her little gun and pressing Hal’s moccasins to her heart, goes to the child’s playground behind the stable and slays herself. Tabywana finds the body of his daughter and lays it at Jim’s feet who sincerely mourns her passing. The Sheriff sees, understands and leaves Jim in peace. The sixth anniversary of Little Hal’s birthday is celebrated in the Kerhill home in England, and Jim and Diana who love each other devotedly are happy, their love having been strengthened by the fires through which both have passed. 7