The Barefoot Boy (film)

{{short description|1923 film by David Kirkland}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Barefoot Boy

| image = The Barefoot Boy (1923) - 1.jpg

| caption = Advertisement

| director = David Kirkland

| producer = Harry Cohn

| writer = Wallace Clifton

| based_on = {{basedon|"The Barefoot Boy"|John Greenleaf Whittier}}

| starring = John Bowers
Marjorie Daw
Sylvia Breamer

| music =

| cinematography = David Abel

| editing =

| studio = Mission Film Corporation

| distributor = CBC Film Sales Corporation

| released = {{film date|1923|09|01}}

| runtime = 58 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The Barefoot Boy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by David Kirkland and starring John Bowers, Marjorie Daw, and Sylvia Breamer.Dick p. 231 The film is based upon a poem of the same name by John Greenleaf Whittier. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BarefootBoy1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Barefoot Boy] at silentera.com

Plot

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Cast

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Preservation

Partial prints of The Barefoot Boy are maintained by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1459/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Barefoot Boy]

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Bibliography

  • Bernard F. Dick. Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-8131-4961-5}}