The Mine with the Iron Door is a 1924 silent film

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...

 directed by Sam Wood

Sam Wood

Samuel Grosvenor "Sam" Wood was an American film director, and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees...

 and produced by Sol Lesser. The film is based on the book of the same name by American Author Harold Bell Wright

Harold Bell Wright

Harold Bell Wright was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and non-fiction during the first half of the 20th century. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and...

 published in 1923. The Film was shot on location in the Tucson Arizona Valley, Oracle, Arizona and Mt. Lemmon. While shooting the film the cast and crew stayed at the Triangle L Ranch and the Wilson Ranch (Rancho Linda Vista) outside of Oracle Arizona off Historic US Route 80.

Cast

• Dorothy Mackaill
  Dorothy Mackaill
  Dorothy Mackaill was an English-born American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Pat O'Malley
  Pat O'Malley
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• Raymond Hatton
  Raymond Hatton
  Raymond William Hatton was an American movie actor who appeared in almost five hundred movies, including a stint of being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery....
  
  
• Bert Woodruff
  Bert Woodruff
  Bert Woodruff was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 64 films between 1916 and 1931. He was born in Peoria, Illinois and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Jim Bludso...
  
  
• Charles Murray
  Charles Murray (actor)
  Charles Murray , was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 283 films between 1912 and 1938...
  
  
• Mitchell Lewis
  Mitchell Lewis
  Mitchell Lewis was an American film actor. He appeared in 200 films between 1914 and 1956. His best known role is Captain of the Winkie Guards in The Wizard of Oz, but he was uncredited. His lines were "She's dead...
  
  
• Mary Carr
  Mary Carr
  Mary Carr was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr . She appeared in 144 films between 1915 and 1956...
  
  
• William Collier Jr.
• Creighton Hale
  Creighton Hale
  Creighton Hale was an Irish-born American movie actor who worked in the silent film era.-Career:While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company...
  
  
• Robert Frazer
  Robert Frazer
  rightRobert W. Frazer born Robert William Browne on 29 June 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, US, was an American actor who appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death on 17 August 1944 in Los Angeles, California, US, due to leukemia...
  
  
• Clarence Burton
  Clarence Burton
  Clarence Burton was an American silent film actor....
  
  
• Lillian Leighton
  Lillian Leighton
  Lillian Brown Leighton was an American silent film actress. She was signed in 1910 and starred in over 200 films before her retirement in 1940.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
  
• Marie Eagle Eye
• Laura Winston
• Fred Huntley

External links

• Harold Bell Wright: http://www.gchudleigh.com/minemv1924.htm