The Dawn of Understanding (1918)
- Directed by
- David Smith
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 49 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent Western comedy about a woman who arrives in a small frontier town. The story follows her interactions with the local residents as romantic and comedic misunderstandings unfold.
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What happens
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph. It is based on the short story "The Judgement of Bolinas Plain" by 19th-century Western writer Bret Harte. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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