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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914 film)

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'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is a 1914 American silent historical drama film directed by William Robert Daly using Vitagraph and starring Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, and Hattie Delaro. It was based upon playwright George L. Aiken's theatrical adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.Goble p.997 It was produced at Fort Lee, New Jersey by the newly-founded World Film studio.

Its PR proclaimed that (unlike earlier versions) it used "real ice, real bloodhounds, real negroes, real actors, real scenes from real life as it really was in the antebellum days".Blacks in Films, Jim Pines

In 2012, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Cast



* Sam Lucas as Uncle Tom

* Walter Hitchcock as George Shelby

* Hattie Delaro as Mrs. Shelby

* Master Abernathy as George Shelby Jr.

* Teresa Michelena as Eliza

* Irving Cummings as George Harris

* Paul Scardon as Haley

* Marie Eline as Little Eva St. Clair

* Garfield Thompson as St. Clair

* Roy Applegate as Simon Legree

* Boots Wall as Topsy

References



Bibliography



* Goble, Alan. 'The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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