The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
Charles R. Seeling
Director
David Smith
Director

Bessie Love
Sue Prescott

George A. Williams
Silas Prescott

John Gilbert
Ira Beasley

J. Frank Glendon
Jim Wynd

Dorothea Wolbert
Mrs. Prescott

George Kunkel
Sheriff Jack Scott
Jacob Abrams
Parson Davies
Go West65%
Boss Nigger66%
A Million Ways to Die in the West60%
The Unholy Trinity63%
Barbarosa59%
Driver's Ed67%
Nickelodeon62%
The Apple Dumpling Gang65%
Man Without a Star64%
Paint Your Wagon63%
The Hallelujah Trail60%
Mackenna's Gold66%
Blazing Saddles72%
True Grit73%
The Paleface61%
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown78%
City Slickers64%
The Magnificent Seven64%
The Tramp65%
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance78%