Synopsis
Although this was Cecil B. DeMille's third directorial effort, it was the first time he attempted it on his own, without the skills of his more experienced co-director Oscar Apfel. Most of the Lasky Company productions were based on either a novel, a stage play, or in the case of The Virginian, a novel (by Owen Wister) that became a stage play. The title character is played by Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston is his schoolteacher ladylove, Molly Wood. The setting is Bess Creek, Wyoming. The...more