The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
59m
Running Time
November 28, 1920Release Date
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
59m
Running Time
November 28, 1920Release Date
Plot.
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.
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Cast & Crew.
Iris Hall
Eve Mason
Walker Thompson
Hugh Van Allen
Lawrence Chenault
Jefferson Driscoll
Mattie Wilkes
Mother Driscoll
Oscar Micheaux
Director
Louis Dean
August Barr
Leigh Whipper
Tugi - an Indian Fakir
Jim Burris
Actor
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 28, 1920
StatusReleased
Running Time59m
Filming LocationsFort Lee, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
The Symbol of the Unconquered (also known as The Wilderness Trail) is a 1920 silent "race film" drama produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. It is Micheaux's fourth feature-length film and along with Within Our Gates is among his early surviving works. The Symbol of the Unconquered was made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and released by Micheaux on November 29, 1920. A print of the film is extant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The film is based on the way perceptions of race shape human relationships.