The Wild Strain

Jan 14, 1918

0h 50m

★ 0.0

The story of a regular American girl who rebelled against autocracy and gave vent to the reckless spirit inherited from her bandit ancestor.

Overview

Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

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Cast

Winifred Hollywood

Nell Shipman

Harold Burton

Gayne Whitman

John Calvin Hollywood

Otto Lederer

Mrs. Hollywood

Hattie Buskirk

Kingsley Royce

Edward Alexander

Mrs. Burton

Ruth Handforth

Col. Bull

Robert N. Bradbury

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