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Nomads of the North

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Nomads of the North is a 1920 American drama film of the North Woods co-directed and co-written by David Hartford and James Oliver Curwood, and featuring Lon Chaney, Betty Blythe, and Lewis Stone. The film was based on Curwood's own 1919 novel of the same name (he also produced the film). The film still exists in complete form and is available on DVD. The film's original poster also still exists. Plot In a small rural village, impoverished Nanette Roland refuses to marry the villainous Buck McDougall until she is convinced that her long-absent fiancé, Raoul Challoner (Lon Chaney), is dead. Buck obtains false evidence of Challoner's death and Nanette sadly consents to be married, mainly for her bankrupt old father's sake. (Raoul had gone away months earlier on a hunting expedition and never returned.) At Nanette's wedding ceremony, Raoul suddenly appears alive at the church and his presence interrupts the proceedings. Raoul has brought back a pet dog and a tamed bear cub with him from his sojourn, both animals having become very attached to him. Raoul talks Nanette into eloping with him and his two pets, but Buck and his henchmen attack Raoul. In the ensuing battle, Raoul accidentally kills a man in self-defense but he is arrested for murder anyway, since Buck's father runs the whole town. Raoul is handcuffed and locked up in the basement of a log cabin, with a murder charge hanging over him. That night, Nanette helps Raoul escape at gunpoint and, after a hasty wedding, the two flee into the wilderness. Corporal O'Connor of the North-West Mounted Police is given the assignment of capturing him, and embarks on what he knows will be a long mission. Three years later, the Mountie, aided by Buck, discovers Raoul's cabin in the North Woods, where Raoul and his wife are raising a baby together. (The dog and the bear still reside with them.) Although he has the impression that Raoul is basically a good man, the Mountie feels he is bound to carry out the law and has no choice but to break up the happy family scene before him.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Nomads of the North: Based on the novel of the same name by Canadian writer James

Overview

Nomads of the North is a 1920 American drama film of the North Woods co-directed and co-written by David Hartford and James Oliver Curwood, and featuring Lon Chaney, Betty Blythe, and Lewis Stone. The film was based on Curwood's own 1919 novel of the same name (he also produced the film). The film still exists in complete form and is available on DVD. The film's original poster also still exists. Plot In a small rural village, impoverished Nanette Roland refuses to marry the villainous Buck McDougall until she is convinced that her long-absent fiancé, Raoul Challoner (Lon Chaney), is dead. Buck obtains false evidence of Challoner's death and Nanette sadly consents to be married, mainly for her bankrupt old father's sake. (Raoul had gone away months earlier on a hunting expedition and never returned.) At Nanette's wedding ceremony, Raoul suddenly appears alive at the church and his presence interrupts the proceedings. Raoul has brought back a pet dog and a tamed bear cub with him from his sojourn, both animals having become very attached to him. Raoul talks Nanette into eloping with him and his two pets, but Buck and his henchmen attack Raoul. In the ensuing battle, Raoul accidentally kills a man in self-defense but he is arrested for murder anyway, since Buck's father runs the whole town. Raoul is handcuffed and locked up in the basement of a log cabin, with a murder charge hanging over him. That night, Nanette helps Raoul escape at gunpoint and, after a hasty wedding, the two flee into the wilderness. Corporal O'Connor of the North-West Mounted Police is given the assignment of capturing him, and embarks on what he knows will be a long mission. Three years later, the Mountie, aided by Buck, discovers Raoul's cabin in the North Woods, where Raoul and his wife are raising a baby together. (The dog and the bear still reside with them.) Although he has the impression that Raoul is basically a good man, the Mountie feels he is bound to carry out the law and has no choice but to break up the happy family scene before him.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).