The Old Country
The Old Country is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Gerald McCarthy, Kathleen Vaughan and Haidee Wright.[1]
It adapts a play by Dion Clayton Calthrop (same year, same title).[2][3] The play was adapted by Eliot Stannard, being one of various scripts he based on literary works in the late 1910s-early 1920s.[4]
Premise
A Yankee planter buys a squire's house, where he installs his exiled mother, to learn that he is in fact the squire's son.[5]
Cast
- Gerald McCarthy – James Fountain
- Kathleen Vaughan – Mary Lorimer
- Haidee Wright – Mrs. Fountain[6]
- George Bellamy – Squire
- Ethel Newman – Annette Alborough
- Stanley Roberts – Austin Wells
- Sidney Paxton – Steward
References
- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | The OLD COUNTRY (1921)". web.archive.org. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ Gifford, Denis (24 October 2018). The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-83702-2.
- ^ Barlowe, Jamie (8 August 2024). Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-040-10080-6.
- ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.
- ^ Picture Show (Oct 1920-Apr 1921). Media History Digital Library. London. 1920.
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