Tol'able David
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Tol'able David is a 1921 American silent film based on the Joseph Hergesheimer short story. It was adapted to the screen by Edmund Goulding and directed by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures.
A major box office success, the acclaimed film was voted a Photoplay Magazine 1921 "medal of honor" and is seen by critics and viewers as one of the classics of silent film.
Cast
- Richard Barthelmess : David Kinemon
- Gladys Hulette : Esther Hatburn
- Walter P. Lewis : Iscah Hatburn
- Ernest Torrence : Luke Hatburn
- Ralph Yearsley : Saul 'Little Buzzard' Hatburn
- Forrest Robinson : Grandpa Hatburn
Other adaptations
- Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother (1927) was a highly-regarded comedy film that used a similar plot. Lloyd said in later years that it was his favourite of his own films.
- The less successful 1930 "talkie" remake was directed by John G. Blystone for Columbia Pictures Corporation and starred Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, and Joan Peers.
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