The Thoroughbred (1916 film)

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The Thoroughbred
Directed by Charles Bartlett
Starring Charlotte Burton
Jack Prescott
Distributed by Mutual Film
Release date
  • January 17, 1916 (1916-01-17)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

The Thoroughbred is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bartlett, as his first feature length film [1] starring Charlotte Burton and Jack Prescott. It should not be confused with the identically titled Triangle Film production The Thoroughbred of the same year.

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Reception

The film was commended for its action scenes [2] [3] with critic Harvey F. Thew for Motion Picture News [4] praised both the staging and camera work in particular. However, Wid's Film and Film Folk found the directing style to be old school, lamenting the "failure of the director to use modern methods in his placing of the camera..." and found it much akin to the average melodrama films from earlier in the decade. [5] [6]

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References

  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  2. https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor27newy/page/444/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. https://archive.org/details/widsfilmsfilmfol02wids/page/n56/mode/1up?view=theater
  4. https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew131unse/page/394/mode/2up?view=theater
  5. https://archive.org/details/widsfilmsfilmfol02wids/page/n56/mode/1up?view=theater
  6. https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=widsfilmsfilmfol02wids