Gretchen, the Greenhorn (1916)
Dorothy Gish stars as Gretchen, the daughter of Dutch immigrant Ralph Lewis. Doing her best to adjust to her strange new homeland of the USA, Gretchen falls in love with Italian-American Frank Bennett. The plot thickens when she is kidnapped by gangsters so that her father, an engraver, will be forced to make counterfeit plates. A rousing (and amusing) rescue scene caps this cinemadaptation of Bernard McConville's story Gretchen Blunders In. Curiously, the film is not mentioned in the otherwise thorough 1973 coffee-table book Lillian and Dorothy Gish. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dorothy Gish, Ralph Lewis, (more)
- Director(s):
- Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin, (more)
Synopsis of Gretchen, the Greenhorn
Dorothy Gish stars as Gretchen, the daughter of Dutch immigrant Ralph Lewis. Doing her best to adjust to her strange new homeland of the USA, Gretchen falls in love with Italian-American Frank Bennett. The plot thickens when she is kidnapped by gangsters so that her father, an engraver, will be forced to make counterfeit plates. A rousing (and amusing) rescue scene caps this cinemadaptation of Bernard McConville's story Gretchen Blunders In. Curiously, the film is not mentioned in the otherwise thorough 1973 coffee-table book Lillian and Dorothy Gish. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Gretchen, the Greenhorn
- Dorothy Gish - Gretchen Van Houck
- Frank Bennett - Pietro
- Kate Bruce - Widow Garrity
- George E. Stone - Micky Garrity
- Francis Carpenter - Garrity kid
- Violet Radcliffe - Garrity kid
- Ralph Lewis - Jan Van Houck
- Eugene Pallette - Rogers
- Elmo Lincoln - Ship Captain
- Beulah Burns - Garrity kid
- Tom Spencer - Garrity Kid
- Carmen de Rue
- Director(s):
- Sidney Franklin, Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin
- Writer(s):
- Bernard McConville
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