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
{{Cast listing|
- John Bowers as Dick Alden
- Marjorie Daw as Mary Truesdale
- Sylvia Breamer as Milicent Carter
- George A. McDaniel as Rodman Grant
- Raymond Hatton as Deacon Holloway
- Tully Marshall as Tom Adams
- George Periolat as Si Parker
- Virginia True Boardman as Mrs. Blake
- Brinsley Shaw as Josiah Blake
- Harry Todd as Bill Hawkins
- Otis Harlan as Wilson
- Frankie Lee as Dick Alden - as a Child
- Gertrude Messinger as Mary Truesdale - as a Child
- Lottie Williams as Mrs. Hawkins
- Spec O'Donnell as Schoolboy
}}
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]
References
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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}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0013860}}
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Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by David Kirkland
Category:Columbia Pictures films
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