A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Wild Strain
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William Wolbert

Cast: Nell Shipman [Winifred Hollywood], Alfred Whitman [?] (Gayne Whitman)? [Harold Burton], Otto Lederer [John Calvin Hollywood], Mrs. Buskirk [?] (Hattie Buskirk)? [Mrs. Hollywood], Ed Alexander [Kingsley Royce], Ruth Handforth [Mrs. Burton], R. Bradbury [Colonel Bull]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by Greater Vitagraph, Incorporated [A Blue Ribbon Feature]. / Scenario by Garfield Thompson and George H. Plympton, from the screen story “The Eighth Great-Grandparent” by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester. Presented by Albert E. Smith. / © 7 January 1918 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP11913]. Released 14 January 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama: Society.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 November 2023.

References: ClasIm-220 p. 42 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.