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The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Old Swimmin' Hole' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Joe De Grasse based on the poem 'The Old Swimmin' Hole' by James Whitcomb Riley. A reviewer for 'Exhibitors Herald' summarized, "The theme of the picture is a light onejust the pleasant little love story of a country schoolboy and girl in the era of the youth of Tom Sawyer."
The film's lack of intertitles has been described as innovative. "This marks an advance in film making," the same reviewer claimed. "Their absence is not realized for some time after the feature has proceeded, a certain indication that it has been skillfully welded together without them and their place supplied by good acting."
Cast
*Charles Ray as Ezra Hull
*Laura La Plante as Myrtle
*James Gordon as Mr. Hull
*Blanche Rose as Mrs. Hull
*Marjorie Prevost as Esther
*Lincoln Stedman as Skinny
*Lon Poff as Professor Payne
References
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