The Old Country

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The Old Country
Directed by A. V. Bramble
Written byDion Clayton Calthrop (play)
Eliot Stannard
StarringGerald McCarthy
Kathleen Vaughan
Haidee Wright
George Bellamy
Production
company
Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
  • 1921 (1921)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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]

Contents

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

References

  1. ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | The OLD COUNTRY (1921)". 18 January 2009. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-095194-3.
  3. ↑ Gifford, Denis (24 October 2018). The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-83702-2.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Picture Show (Oct 1920-Apr 1921). Media History Digital Library. London. 1920.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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