Iola's Promise

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Iola's Promise (1912)

Directed by D.W. Griffith

Romance, Western, Drama · 18m

Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.

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Cast

Mary Pickford Iola Alfred Paget Jack Harper
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Frank Evans Jack's Partner Dorothy Bernard Jack's Sweetheart Frank Opperman Frank's Sweetheart's Father Kate Toncray Jack's Sweetheart's Mother Charles Hill Mailes Jack's Sweetheart's Father J. Jiquel Lanoe The Medicine Man (uncredited)

Crew

Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Belle Taylor
Director of Photography
Billy Bitzer

Details

Release date
1912-03-14
Runtime
18m
Genres
Romance, Western, Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America
Production
American Mutoscope & Biograph