Black Beauty (1921 film)
Appearance
Black Beauty | |
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Directed by | David Smith |
Screenplay by | George Randolph Chester William B. Courtney Lillian Christy Chester |
Produced by | Albert E. Smith |
Starring | Jean Paige James Morrison George Webb |
Cinematography | Reginald Lyons |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Vitagraph Company of America |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes; 7 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film(English intertitles) |
Black Beauty was a 1921 silent movie version of Anna Sewell's novel of the same name. Black Beauty is an autobiography of a horse, who tells the story of his life and of the people surrounding him.[1] This film exists incompleteand is preserved at the Library of Congress.[2] [3]
Cast
- Jean Paige - Jessie Gordon
- James Morrison - Harry Blomefield
- George Webb - Jack Beckett
- Bobby Mack - Derby Ghost
- John Steppling - Squire Gordon
- Leslie T. Peacocke - Lord Wynwaring
- Adele Farrington - Lady Wynsaring
- Chick Morrison - John Manly (*billed Charles Morrison)
- Mollie McConnell - Mrs Gordon(*posthumous appearance; McConnell died before the film was released)
- Colin Kenny - George Gordon
- Georgia French - Flora Gordon
- Robert Bolder - Vicar Blomefield
- Margaret Mann - Mrs. Blomefield
- George C. Pearce - Farmer Grey (*as George Pierce)
- James Connelly - Fat Bailiff
- Robert Milasch - Lean Bailiff
- James Donnelly - uncredited
References
- ^ Black Beauty at silentera.com
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress published by The American Film Institute, c.1978
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Black Beauty
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