Down Home is a 1920 American silent drama film written, directed, and produced by Irvin Willat and starring Leatrice Joy and James Barrows. It was distributed by the independent film distributor W. W. Hodkinson.Progressive Silent Film List: Down Home at silentera.com, September 5, 2014. A copy survives at the Library of Congress.Down Home, The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog. (Wayback Machine)
The film is based on the novel Dabney Todd, by F. N. Westcott, which was also probably a basis of Something to Think About, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which was produced at the same time.Robert S. Birchard,Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004, .
Plot
Cast Leatrice Joy as Nance Pelot James O. Barrows as Dabney Todd (credited as James Barrows) Edward Hearn as Chet Todd Aggie Herring as Mrs. Todd Edward Nolan as Martin Doover William Robert Daly as Joe Pelot (credited as Robert Daly) Sidney Franklin as Cash Bailey (credited as Sidney A. Franklin) Bert Hadley as Reverence Mr. Blake Frank Braidwood as Larry Shayne James Robert Chandler as Deacon Howe (credited as Robert Chandler) Nelson McDowell as Lige Conklin Florence Gilbert as Clerk J. P. Lockney as Barney Shayne, Larry's Father William Sloan as Townsman (credited as William Sloane) Helen Gilmore as Townswoman
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