Tol'able David
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
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Silent (no soundtrack) From the Wikipedia entry for "Tol'able David": "Tol'able David is a 1921 American silent film based on the Joseph Hergesheimer short story. It was adapted to the screen by Edmund Goulding and directed by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures. A major box office success, the acclaimed film was voted a Photoplay Magazine 1921 "medal of honor" and is seen by critics and viewers as one of the classics of silent film. In 2007, Tol'able David was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'." Original text can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tol%27able_David License terms may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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- Director
- Henry King
- Starring
- Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Ernest Torrence, Marion Abbott, Forrest Robinson, Laurence Eddinger, Walter P. Lewis, Ralph Yearsley
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