The Pilgrim

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The Pilgrim

6.5 | en | Western

Short western by Frank Borzage about a man called The Pilgrim who comes into a new town, establishes himself and falls in love with a woman.

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Released: June. 09,1916 | Released Producted By: American Film Manufacturing Company , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

Short western by Frank Borzage about a man called The Pilgrim who comes into a new town, establishes himself and falls in love with a woman.

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Cast

Frank Borzage , Ann Little , Jack Richardson

Director

L. Guy Wilky

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Cast

Frank Borzage

as The Pilgrim

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn Nugget Jim's Pardner The Pilgrim

Ann Little

as Nita Dudley

The Silent Master Nugget Jim's Pardner The Pilgrim The Black Box The Post Telegrapher

Jack Richardson

as Joe Mex

They Never Come Back Without Honors The Ballyhoo Buster Golden Rule Kate The Pilgrim

Reviews

oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx This is a pretty lovely film starring the director himself, Frank Borzage. I personally found it illuminating. The Pilgrim is auteurist cinema in that Borzage wrote, directed, and starred in it. It's a Western with a difference, all about his own personal views on manhood, more exuberant than his mature work. He was a handsome devil, and here he's an itinerant sometimes cowpoke who takes life as it comes. He's got a backbone and can stand up for himself, but he's not mean, and he's not possessive. A happy-go-lucky type. Visually speaking the film is great, there's a particularly lovely shot of rolling hills at one point, and lots of location shooting. The relationship in the movie, betweem him and a college girl is very emotionally mature, particularly for a movie from those days. It comes across as incredibly modern and daring at points, like when he cares for a man he's cut up in a knife fight. Borzage seems a lot more humane and care-free at this point in his life. I absolutely love this film. At the festival screening I attended, this was accompanied by an ole time guitar and fiddle duo, the choice of music is critical, this isn't one for a standard piano score, needs something folksy.