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Title: The Conqueror

Date: 1917

Distributor: Fox Film Corporation

Director: Raoul Walsh

Cast: William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Charles Clary, James A. Marcus, Carrie Clarke, William Chisolm, Robert Dunbar, Owen Jones, William Eagle Shirt, Chief Birdhead, Little Bear.

Summary: Raised in the country among the Cherokee Indians, Sam Houston becomes a politician in order to win the hand of Eliza, the daughter of Nashville aristocrats. When he learns that she married him only so she could be the first lady of Tennessee, an angry Sam goes to Texas. After her father is killed by Sidney Stokes, a remorseful Eliza searches for Sam. In danger from marauding Mexicans, Eliza is rescued by Sam and his friends, the Cherokee Indians.

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