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The Home Stretch
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Wikipedia article
'The Home Stretch' is a surviving 1921 American silent drama film directed by Jack Nelson and written by Louis Stevens. The film stars Douglas MacLean, Beatrice Burnham, Walt Whitman, Margaret Livingston, Wade Boteler, Mary Jane Irving, and Charles Hill Mailes. Its screenplay was written by Louis Stevens and is based upon the short story "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by Charles Belmont Davis, which appeared in the October 1914 issue of 'Metropolitan Magazine'. The film was released on April 24, 1921, by Paramount Pictures.
Cast
*Douglas MacLean as Johnny Hardwick
*Beatrice Burnham as Margaret Warren
*Walt Whitman as Mr. Warren
*Margaret Livingston as Molly
*Wade Boteler as Mr. Duffy
*Mary Jane Irving as Gwen Duffy
*Charles Hill Mailes as Mr. Wilson
*Mollie McConnell as Mrs. Wilson (*posthumous release for Mollie who died in 1920)
*Jack Singleton as Tommy Wilson
*Joseph Bennett as Hi Simpkins
*George Holmes as Skeeter
Preservation status
Prints held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Library of Congress, and Academy Film Archive.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2640/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Home Stretch']'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress', p. 82 c.1978 by the American Film Institute
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