The Girl from God's Country

Directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle

United States, 1921 (fiction, black and white)

Film Description:
"The Girl from God's Country (presumed lost; seven-to-nine-reels) [...] was a large-budget, long, epic feature, complete with airplanes, fires, and an earthquake."
-- Kay Armatage (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Nell Shipman
Produced by:	Nell Shipman
Principal Cast:	Nell Shipman, Edmund Burns, Al W. Filson, George Berrell, Walt Whitman, Cecil Van Auker, Boyd Irwin, Lillian Leighton, L.M. Wells, Milla Davenport
Production Company:	Nell Shipman Productions

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Quote by the Director

"I had achieved the ultimate of an actor's desire: twin characters shot in double exposure."
-- Nell Shipman (source)

Quote about The Girl from God's Country

"It would, of course, be extremely intersting to see The Girl from God's Country, particularly in relation to questions of the representation of race and cultural identity, for in the film Shipman takes the part of an 'other' for the first time in her films."
-- Kay Armatage (source)

Notes about The Girl from God's Country

The mixed-race heroine of The Girl from God's Country later reappeared in Nell Shipman's novel, Get the Woman (1930).

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Bibliography for The Girl from God's Country

Brief Sections of Books

Armatage, Kay. The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. (pp. 161-76, 181-83, 197-99)