The Primitive Lover
(1922) American
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Sidney A. Franklin

Cast: Constance Talmadge [Phyllis Graham Tomley], Harrison Ford [Hector Tomley], Kenneth Harlan [Donald Wales], Joe Roberts [Roarin’ Bill Rivers], Charles Stevens [Pedro], George Pearce [Judge Henseed], Big Tree (Chief Big Tree) [Chief Johnny Bluebottle], Mrs. Brundage (Mathilde Brundage) [Mrs. Graham], Frederick Vroom [Mr. Graham]; Snitz Edwards [husband on witness stand], Clyde Benson [an attorney], Charles Pina [indian herder]

Constance Talmadge Film Company production, distributed Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Executive producer, Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Frances Marion, from the play The Divorcee by Edgar Selwyn. Art direction by Stephen Goosson. Cinematography by David Abel. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / Released 1 May 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy: Romance.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Film Preservation Associates film holdings (Blackhawk Films collection) [16mm fine-grain positive, duplicated from the original camera negative].

Keywords: Authors: Novelists - Books: Novels (Romance) - Children - Criminals: Bandits - Divorce - Families: Husband-wife relationships - Law: Attorneys, Courtrooms, Judges, Lawyers - Marriages - Native Americans - Police: Sheriffs - Publicity stunts - Rafts - Rescues - Tobacco: Cigars, Pipes - Transportation: Automobiles - USA: Nevada - Water: Oceans - Weapons: Guns - Widows

Listing updated: 24 June 2009.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Card-Seductive p. 94; Everson-American pp. 201-202; Limbacher-Feature p. 193; Sweeney-Coming p. 45 : ClasIm-226 p. 41 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.