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Brown of Harvard
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Harry Beaumont

Cast: Tom Moore [Tom Brown], Hazel Daly [Evelyn Ames], Sydney Ainsworth [Victor Colton], Warner Richmond [Claxton Madden], Walter McGrail [Gerald Thorne], Nancy Winston [Marian Thorne], Alice Gordon [Mrs. Ames], Kempton Greene [Wilton Ames], Frank Joyner [Carl Wright], Robert Ellis [‘Bud’ Hall], Lydia Dalzell [Edith Sinclair], Walter Hiers [Tubby], Arthur Hausman [Happy], Johnnie Walker [Jean], William ‘Lone Star’ Dietz [a football player]

The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The George Kleine System [Perfection Pictures]. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Harry Beaumont, from the play Brown of Harvard by Rida Johnston Young and the novel adaptation Brown of Harvard by Rida Johnston Young and Gilbert P. Coleman. Presented by William N. Selig. / © 22 December 1917 by The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated [LP11888]. Released 10 January 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Tom Brown at Harvard. Contemporary reviews crediting the production to Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, are in error. The film was rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis (in five reels) by [?] Film Specials, Incorporated? in 1919. The play was subsequently filmed as Brown of Harvard (1926).

Drama.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Evelyn breaks her engagement to Tom because she finds Marion Thorne hidden in his apartments when she and her mother visit him. Tom cannot explain without involving Evelyn’s brother, who has become entangled with Marion. From this false start a chain of disasters grow until Tom, after rowing his crew to victory, is denounced on the float as the betrayer of Marion by her infuriated brother, but there is still a spark of manhood left in young Ames, and he clears up the misunderstandings.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 December 2024.

References: Eames-MGM p. 30 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

 
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