The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921 film)

1921 film

  • Charles Ray
  • Arthur S. Kane
Starring
  • Charles Ray
  • Laura La Plante
CinematographyGeorge RizardEdited byHarry L. Decker
Production
company
First National Pictures
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • February 27, 1921 (1921-02-27) (U.S.)
Running time
60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent

The Old Swimmin' Hole is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Joe De Grasse based on the poem The Old Swimmin' Hole by James Whitcomb Riley. A reviewer for Exhibitors Herald summarized, "The theme of the picture is a light one—just the pleasant little love story of a country schoolboy and girl in the era of the youth of Tom Sawyer."[1]

The film's lack of intertitles has been described as innovative. "This marks an advance in film making," the same reviewer claimed. "Their absence is not realized for some time after the feature has proceeded, a certain indication that it has been skillfully welded together without them and their place supplied by good acting."[1]

  • The film

Plot

Cast

  • Charles Ray as Ezra Hull
  • Laura La Plante as Myrtle
  • James Gordon as Mr. Hull
  • Blanche Rose as Mrs. Hull
  • Marjorie Prevost as Esther
  • Lincoln Stedman as Skinny
  • Lon Poff as Professor Payne

References

  1. ^ a b "Reviews". Exhibitors Herald. Chicago: Martin J. Quigley. February 19, 1921. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

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