The Old Nest

{{short description|1921 silent drama black & white film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Old Nest

| image = Old Nest lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Reginald Barker

| screenplay = Rupert Hughes

| story = Rupert Hughes

| cinematography = {{plainlist|

• Philip Hatkin
• Percy Hilburn

}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| released = {{film date|1921|6|28|U.S.}}

| country = United States

| studio = Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

| distributor = Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

}}

The Old Nest is a 1921 American drama silent black and white film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Helene Chadwick.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdEPgRJyVPIC&pg=PA30 |pages=30, 71 |title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema |first1=Donald W. |last1=McCaffrey |first2=Christopher P. |last2=Jacobs |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1999 |isbn=9780313303456}} It was awarded for the National High School Students' Poll for Best Picture They Had Ever Seen.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PLUbxH1_PREC&pg=PA29 |title=An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 |first=Richard |last=Koszarski |publisher=University of California Press |date=May 4, 1994 |page=29 |isbn=9780520085350}} It is based on the short story by Rupert Hughes,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA893 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |first=Alan |last=Goble |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |date=September 8, 2011 |page=893 |isbn=9783110951943}} which was one of the most notably adaptations as Behind the Screen (1916).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WV5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA312 |title=Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada During the Progressive Era |first=Dominique |last=Brégent-Heald |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |year=2015 |page=312 |isbn=9780803278868}}