Accusing Evidence (1916)

Directed by

Allan Dwan

Genre

short film, Western film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent western from 1916 about a man accused of a crime in a frontier setting. The film follows his attempts to clear his name amid a harsh landscape.

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What happens

Accusing Evidence is a 1914 American silent Western film directed by Allan Dwan (not released until 1916) and starring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Murdock MacQuarrie. The film was likely produced by early 1914 but only theatrically released in 1916, due to the actors who appear in the cast with Chaney. For one thing, Pauline Bush wasn't even working for Universal in 1916, and Chaney hadn't worked for director Allan Dwan since 1914. The general opinion is that this film was shot in early 1914 when Chaney made The Honor of the Mounted with Murdock MacQuarrie for Allan Dwan, but the film's release was delayed for some reason for more than two years. Another theory is that this film could actually be The Honor of the Mounted (or even the 1913 Bloodhounds of the North perhaps) retitled and repackaged. Since the films are all lost, it is impossible to tell, but no reviews or stills exist in any of the 1916 trade journals for this specific title. The bare bones plot synopsis that exists for Accusing Evidence in Universal's records doesn't quite match either of those two earlier films, however. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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