The Eternal Struggle is a silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Reginald Barker. Distributed by Metro Pictures

Metro Pictures

Metro Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in late 1915 by Richard A. Rowland . Louis B. Mayer who worked for Metro Pictures Corporation early on. It is not to be confused with MGM which is a much later franchise concerning itself, Goldwyn and Louis B....

, the film is based on the 1913 novel The Law-Bringers, written by Edith Joan Lyttleton

Edith Joan Lyttleton

Edith Joan Lyttelton was an Australasian author, who wrote as G.B. Lancaster. She was born in Tasmania, and bought up on a sheep station in Canterbury, New Zealand. She produced 11 novels, a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.She was New Zealand's most widely read...

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Preservation status

Once thought to be a lost film

Lost film

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, this film was one of ten silent films digitally preserved in Russia and provided to the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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 in October 2010.

Plot

The film focuses on Andrée Grange, the daughter of a local cafe owner. She is about to marry Neil Tempest, a sergeant at the North-West Mounted Police, but is actually in love with Bucky O'Hara, one of Tempest's underlings whom she is constantly flirting with. Meanwhile, her father is attacked in his cabin by Barode Dukane. Andrée, who has witnessed the struggle, feels that she is responsible for the following death of Barode. Her father helps her flee town by ship and O'Hara is assigned to locate and arrest her. He tracks her down, but is followed by Tempest. Tempest tries to help her, but they are caught in the rapids. O'Hara eventually comes to the rescue, saving Tempest and Andrée's lives. In the end, her innocence is proven and Tempest breaks the engagement, realizing that his fiancée is in love with O'Hara.

Cast

• Renée Adorée
  Renée Adorée
  Renée Adorée was a French actress who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s.-Early life:...
  
   as Andrée Grange
• Earle Williams
  Earle Williams
  Earle Williams was a silent film star....
  
   as Sgt. Neil Tempest
• Barbara La Marr
  Barbara La Marr
  Barbara La Marr was an American stage and film actress, cabaret artist and screenwriter.La Marr was known as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful", after a Hearst newspaper feature writer, Adela Rogers St...
  
   as Camille Lenoir
• Pat O'Malley as Bucky O'Hara
• Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
  
   as Barode Dukane
• Josef Swickard
  Josef Swickard
  Josef Swickard was a German-born veteran stage and screen character actor, who had toured with stock companies in Europe, South Africa, and South America.-Career:...
  
   as Pierre Grange
• Pat Harmon
  Pat Harmon
  Pat Harmon was an American film actor. He appeared in 134 films between 1920 and 1947.He was born in Lewiston, Illinois and died in Riverside, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Oily Kirby
• Anders Randolf
  Anders Randolf
  Anders Randolf was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1931.Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swordsman. He immigrated to the United States in 1895, quickly giving in to a lifelong passion for the...
  
   as Capt. Jack Scott
• Ed Brady as Jean Caardeau
• Robert Anderson as Olaf Olafson
• George Kuwa
  George Kuwa
  George Kuwa was a Japanese and American Issei film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 58 films between 1916 and 1931...
  
  as Wo Long