The Clodhopper

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Isaac Nelson (French) is the tight-fisted president of a country bank and owns a farm, where his son Everett (Ray) works long hours every day, even on Sundays. Everett wears his father's cast-off clothes, and after his mother (Knott) buys him a mail order suit, Everett goes to a Fourth of July picnic with his sweetheart Mary Martin (Wilson). The father sees his wife in the field doing the son's work and, after forcing his son home from the picnic, beats him. Everett Nelson runs off to the big city (NYC) and tries to apply for a job as a janitor at a theater. There he meets a showman who puts him in a cabaret as a country dancer, doing a bizarre dance that Everett calls the "clodhopper slide," making $200 a week. Back in his hometown, rumors start to spread about the county bank making poor investments, creating a run on Mr. Nelson's bank. Everett's girlfriend, goes to New York to ask him for help and sways him to return home. Everett saves the bank and he and Mary get married.{{cite web|title=The Clodhopper (1917)|url=http://www.nuraypictures.com/movies/clodhopper_1917|publisher=Nuray Pictures}}{{cite web|title=The Clodhopper|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=14515|publisher=AFI}}{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Charles Ray in The Clodhopper |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=23 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=30 June 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald05exhi |accessdate=2014-11-06}}

• Charles Ray - Everett Nelson
• Charles K. French - Isaac Nelson, Everett's Father
• Margery Wilson - Mary Martin
• Lydia Knott - Mrs. Nelson
• Tom Guise - Karl Seligman

Like many American films of the time, The Clodhopper was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required one cut of a stamped postcard (the board cut closeups of all envelopes and postcards from films).{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=3 |page=33 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=14 July 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald05exhi |accessdate=2014-11-08}}

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Category:1917 films

Category:Films directed by Victor Schertzinger

Category:1917 comedy-drama films

Category:American silent feature films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:1910s American films

Category:Silent American comedy-drama films

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