POSTAL SUBSTITUTE, A

1910, United States / France

Aka… A Postal Substitute (US)

Ex… Der Landbriefträger in Wildwest / ‘The Country Postman in Wild West’ (Ger), A Postal Substitute (UK)

T: 315mt

Pc: Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse [George Henri Rogers & Paul Joseph

Roux] (Par) and Star Film Company [Gaston Méliès] (US)

Dist: Pc: Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse [George Henri Rogers & Paul

Joseph Roux], General Film Company (07/21/10, US), American Wild West Films [J.F. Brockliss] (02/17/12, UK), Eclipse-Urban Trading Co. (03/07/12, Ger)

D: William F. Haddock; P: Gaston Méliès, George Henri Rogers & Paul Joseph Roux; Ph: William 'Daddy' Paley

C: Francis Ford [Frank Thomas Feeney] (Jack Flynn), William Clifford (Steve Benson), Henry Stanley (George Stone, May's Father), Edith Storey (May Stone) & Julia Anne Nichols (Mrs. Benson)

     Comm: [Filmed in San Antonio, Texas, USA] Eclipse-Urban Trading Co. took an ad for A POSTAL SUBSTITUTE out in Kinematograph magazine n269 (02/21/1912, Ger). The French title is unknown.

     Actor Francis Ford was the older brother of director John Ford [John Martin Feeney].

     At the time postal movies were popular: Vesuvio Films’ “Fermo Posta” aka ‘Mail Hold’ (1910, It), Pathe’s “The Postmistress” (01/28/1910, Fr) Bison’s “The Prairie Post Mistress” (08/12/10, US), Pathe’s A WESTERN POSTMISTRESS (11/16/11, Fr), Lux’s “The Postmistress” (05/11/12, Fr).

By Michael Ferguson