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The Barefoot Boy
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5943 feet
Directed by David Kirkland

Cast: John Bowers [Dick Alden], Marjorie Daw [Mary Truesdale], Sylvia Breamer [Millicent Carter], George McDaniel [Rodman Grant], Raymond Hatton [Deacon Halloway], Tully Marshall [Tom Adams], George Periolat [Si Parker], Virginia True Boardman [Mrs. Blake], Brinsley Shaw [Josiah Blake], Harry Todd [Bill Hawkins], Otis Harlan [Wilson], Frankie Lee [Dick Alden, as a child], Gertrude Messinger [Mary Truesdale, as a child], Lottie Williams

Mission Film Corporation production; distributed by C.B.C. Film Sales Corporation. / From a screen story by Wallace Clifton based on the poem “The Barefoot Boy” by John Greenleaf Whittier. Cinematography by David Abel. / © 5 May 1924 by Mission Film Corporation [LP20174]. Released 1 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Rural.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 November 2009.

References: ClasIm-220 p. 43 : Website-AFI.