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Riddle Gawne is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer, and featuring Hart, Katherine MacDonald and Lon Chaney. The film was co-produced by Hart and Thomas H. Ince. The screenplay was written by Charles Alden Seltzer from his earlier novel The Vengeance of Jefferson Gawne. Chaney historian Jon C. Mirsalis claims that Hart contributed greatly to the screenplay but all other sources credit the writing of the screenplay solely to Seltzer.

Considered lost for decades, two of the five reels were found to have survived in a Russian archive and are now kept in the film archive of the Library of Congress. It is unknown if Chaney appears in those two reels. A still exists showing Chaney (as Hame Bozzam) preparing to shoot the unconscious Riddle Gawne in the head. A 1918 advertisement for the showing of the film at Sid Grauman's "Million Dollar Theater" in downtown Los Angeles exists, as well as a publicity photo showing the film's major players in a group shot.

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