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The Argonauts of California — 1849
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by Henry Kabierske
Cast: Grant Churchill [John Brandon], Gertrude Kaby (Gertrude Kabierske) [Marian Stillwell], Robert Chandler [Benjamin Cress, a San Francisco banker], V.O. Whitehead (Omar Whitehead) [the Alcalde of San Francisco], William E. Parsons [Don Enrico Quadora, the Alcalde’s henchman], Dorothy Barrett, Emma Kost, Ethel Smith, Vera Lewis, Gale Brooks, William Reiffel [?] (William Ehfe)?
Monrovia Feature Film Company production; distributed on State Rights basis by Grafton Publishing Film Company. / Produced by Edward L. Grafton. Scenario by Winfield Hogaboom and Elizabeth Baker Bohan, from the book California: Its History and Romance by John Steven McGroarty. Assistant directors, William Ehfe and William E. Parsons. Cinematography by Victor Scheurich and Alex Scheurich. Presented by Edward L. Grafton. / © 26 June 1916 by Grafton Publishing Film Company [LU8584]. Premiered 18 June 1916 at the Columbia Theatre in San Francisco, California. General release, October 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Argonauts. The production was shot in Monrovia, California. The first production from Monrovia Feature Film Company. The film was rereleased in the USA (at seven reels) as The Vigilantes on State Rights basis by Arrow Film Corporation in 1918; character names were changed presumably to disguise that the film was a rerelease of the earlier production.
Drama: Historical.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm acetate duplicate negative [?] (The Argonauts of California version and/or The Vigilantes version)?].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: USA: California
Listing updated: 17 October 2023.
References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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