Down Home (film)

Down Home
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Directed by	Irvin Willat
Written by	Irvin Willat (scenario)
Based on	Dabney Todd by Frank N. Westcott
Produced by	Irvin Willat
Starring	Leatrice Joy
Cinematography	Frank Blount Andrew Webber
Distributed by	W. W. Hodkinson Corporation
Release date	October 1920 (1920-10)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Down Home is a 1920 American silent drama film written, directed, and produced by Irvin Willat and starring Leatrice Joy and James Barrows. It was distributed by the independent film distributor W. W. Hodkinson. ^[1] A copy survives at the Library of Congress. ^[2]

The film is based on the novel Dabney Todd, by F. N. Westcott, ^[1] which was also probably a basis of Something to Think About , directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which was produced at the same time. ^[3]

Cast

• Leatrice Joy as Nance Pelot
• James O. Barrows as Dabney Todd (credited as James Barrows)
• Edward Hearn as Chet Todd
• Aggie Herring as Mrs. Todd
• Edward Nolan as Martin Doover
• William Robert Daly as Joe Pelot (credited as Robert Daly)
• Sidney Franklin as Cash Bailey (credited as Sidney A. Franklin)
• Bert Hadley as Reverence Mr. Blake
• Frank Braidwood as Larry Shayne
• James Robert Chandler as Deacon Howe (credited as Robert Chandler)
• Nelson McDowell as Lige Conklin
• Florence Gilbert as Clerk
• J. P. Lockney as Barney Shayne, Larry's Father
• William Sloan as Townsman (credited as William Sloane)
• Helen Gilmore as Townswoman

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Down Home at silentera.com, September 5, 2014.
2. Down Home, The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog.
3. Robert S. Birchard,Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004, ISBN   0-8131-2324-0.

External links

• Down Home at IMDb