Jess
Also known as A Sister’s Sacrifice, Through the Boer Lines and Jess, the Avenger in the USA
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by George Nichols
Cast: Marguerite Snow [Jess], Florence La Badie [Bess, her sister], James Cruze [Captain John Neil], William Russell [Frank Muller, the treacherous Boer], Harry Marks, Harry Spear
Thanhouser Company production; distributed by Film Supply Company of America. / Scenario by Lloyd Lonergan, from a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Stage manager, Calvin Dix. Assistant directors, Carl LeViness (Carl M. Leviness) and David H. Thompson (David Thompson). / No copyright registration. Released 21 May 1912 (part one, as A Sister’s Sacrifice), and 28 May 1912 (part two, as Through the Boer Lines, and part three, as Jess, the Avenger). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 21 March 2012.
References: Slide-Aspects p. 71 : Website-IMDb; Website-Thanhouser.
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