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  [?] Victor Potel? (left), [?] Billy Franey?, [?] Louise Fazenda?, Hank Mann,
Bull Montana and Lon Cheney.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7895 feet
Directed by Clarence G. Badger (Clarence Badger)

Cast: John Bowers [Quincy Adams Sawyer], Blanche Sweet [Alice Pettengill], Lon Chaney [Obadiah Strout], Barbara La Marr [Lindy Putnam], Elmo Lincoln [Abner Stiles], Louise Fazenda [Mandy Skinner], Joseph Dowling [Nathaniel Sawyer], Claire McDowell [Mrs. Putnam], Edward Connelly [Deacon Pettengill], June Elvidge [Betsy Ann Ross], Victor Potel [Hiram Maxwell], Gale Henry [Samanthey], Hank Mann [Ben Bates], Kate Lester [Mrs. Sawyer], Billy Franey [Bob Wood], Taylor Graves [Cobb twin], Harry Depp [Cobb twin], Andrew Arbuckle

Sawyer-Lubin Productions production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro S.L. Special Production]. / Scenario by Bernard McConville, from the adapation by Bernard McConville of the novel Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason’s Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin. Cinematography by Rudolph Bergquist. Presented by Arthur Sawyer and Herbert Lubin. / © 29 December 1922 by Sawyer-Lubin Productions [LP18554]. Premiered circa 27 November 1922 in Washington, D.C., and in Baltimore, Maryland. Released 4 December 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation in 1927.

Comedy-Drama: Rural.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 December 2022.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 287; Sherwood-Best p. 184; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : ClasIm-220 p. 43; ClasIm-224 p. 11 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Jon C. Mirsalis.

 
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