The Prairie Wife
Genres
Overview
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke though he owns grainland in the West. Duncan and Chaddie are married and go west to homestead. Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who frightens Chaddie. When business takes Duncan away, Chaddie goes to take care of Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill at his place fifteen miles away. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night there. She sleeps under a wagon, but Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
70 min
Release Date
1925-02-23
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
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Vote Average
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Dorothy Devore
Chaddie Green
Herbert Rawlinson
Duncan MacKail
Gibson Gowland
Ollie
Leslie Stuart
Percy
Frances Primm
Olga (as Frances Prim)
Boris Karloff
Diego
Erich von Ritzau
Doctor
Rupert Franklin
Rufus Green
Alphonse Martell
Count de Chateaunois (uncredited)
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