The Lamb
(1915) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by W. Christy Cabanne

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Seena Owen, William E. Lowery (William Lowery), Lillian Langdon, Monroe Salisbury, Kate Toncray, Alfred Paget, Eagle Eye [?] (Charles Eagle Eye?)

Fine Arts Film Company production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Production supervised by D.W. Griffith. Scenario by Granville Warwick (D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods and Mary O’Connor), from the adaptation The New Henrietta by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes of the play The Henrietta by Bronson Howard. Cinematography by William E. Fildew. Music score arranged by Joseph Carl Breil. / © 1 November 1915 by Triangle Film Corporation [LP7887]. Premiere 23 September 1915 at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York, New York. Released 7 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: The Test and the Man. Fairbanks’s first film to be released; his acting in The Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) actually preceeded his work in this film. The film was rereleased on 2 September 1917.

Comedy: Adventure.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2392.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Abductions - Mexico - Native Americans: Yaqui - Trains - USA: Arizona - USA: New York: New York

Listing updated: 15 November 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2392; Bardèche-History p. 114; Barry-Griffith p. 49; Brownlow-Parade p. 479; Lahue-Gentlemen pp. 81, 86; Lahue-Triangle pp. 18, 37, 57, 58; Limbacher-Feature p. 135; Shipman-Cinema p. 56; Slide-FineArts pp. viii, 6, 21, 46-49, 57, 130, 142, 165; Tarbox-Lost pp. 228, 252 : ClasIm-226 p. 42; ClasIm-240 p. 45.