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Deliverance
Also known as Deliverance: My Message to the World in the USA
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels
Directed by George Foster Platt
Cast: Etna Ross [Helen Keller, as a child], Ann Mason [Helen Keller], Helen Keller [herself], Edythe Lyle [Anne Sullivan], Anne Sullivan Macy [herself], Roy Stewart [Captain Keller], Betty Schade [Mrs. Kate Keller], Mrs. Kate Adams Keller [herself, Helen’s mother], Phillips Brooks Keller [himself, Helen’s brother], Polly Thompson [herself, Helen’s secretary], Tula Belle [Nadja, as a child], Flora Braidwood [Nadja], John Cosgrove [Nadja’s father], Mary Tolenski [Nadja’s mother], Ardita Mellinino [the regenerated Nadja], Parke Jones (J. Parks Jones) [Nadja’s son], Edythe Chapman [Sarah Fuller], Joy Montana [Joy], Josef de Serino [Josef], Sarah Lind [Old Black Mammy], James Dunn [lifesaver], James Warfield [Doctor Alexander Graham Bell], Davies Thompson [Reverend Phillips Brooks], Elmo Lincoln [Ignorance], Charlotte Merseau [Knowledge], Harold Judson [George Washington], Jenny Lind [Martha Washington; pickaninny], Ivan Tchkowski [the old music master], Herbert Hayes [Ulysses], Thomas Jefferson [Joseph Jefferson], James Howarth [Mark Twain], Henry Russell [a Radcliffe professor], True Boardman [Helen’s boyfriend]
Helen Keller Film Corporation production; distributed by George Kleine. / Produced by George Foster Platt. Scenario by Doctor Francis Trevelyan Miller, from a screen story by Doctor Francis Trevelyan Miller. Cinematography by Arthur Todd and Lawrence Fowler. Intertitles written by Joseph White Farnham (Joseph Farnham) + [Edwin Leibfreed]. Music score arranged by Doctor Anselm Goetzl. Presented by [?] Edwin Leibfreed and/or George Kleine? / © 26 March 1919 by Edwin Leibfreed [LU13725]. Premiered 18 August 1919 at the Lyric Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan portray themselves in the film’s later episodes. The film opened at New York’s Lyric Theatre at nine reels. The film’s distributor, George Kleine, prepared a road show version at ten reels, and six and seven reel versions for standard engagements from the film’s original 40,000 feet of negative, each version with rewritten intertitles and retitled Deliverance: My Message to the World.
Drama: Biographical.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0986.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (George Kleine collection).
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Authors: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) - Blind persons - Deaf persons - People: Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington, Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan
Listing updated: 9 December 2024.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0986; Schuchman-Hollywood pp. 25, 30, 32a, 109-110; Slide-Aspects p. 20 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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