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Zander the Great (1925)
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Zander the Great (1925)

Drama • 1h 20m

Director: George W. Hill

Cast: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Harry Myers, George Siegmann, Emily Fitzroy, Hobart Bosworth, Richard Carle, Hedda Hopper, Jack Huff, Olin Howland, Harry Watson, Pat Wing, Toby Wing, Carmencita Johnson, Betsy Ann Hisle, Harry Watson, Josephine Crowell

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Best English-friendly & video release

Video notes:

2K scan from a 35mm safety duplicate negative made from an original tinted nitrate print in the Marion Davies Collection at the Library of Congress.

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About the film

Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

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Video Notes:

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Audio Notes:

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