The Call of the Cumberlands
About The Call of the Cumberlands
Hale Brent, a painter living in New York, goes back to the Kentucky mountains to stop a feud between his family, the Brents, and their rivals. Dustin Farnum plays Hale. Winifred Kingston is the female lead. Frank Lloyd directed from Charles Neville Buck’s novel. Julia Crawford Ivers wrote the script.
Cast & crew
More about The Call of the Cumberlands
Lawrence Dallin Clawson photographed it. Paramount released it on 23 January 1916. Wikipedia times it at 50 minutes. Herbert Standing, Page Peters, Howard Davies, Richard L’Estrange, and Myrtle Stedman are billed.
Themes
Making
Lloyd took Buck’s mountain feud and opened it with the painter already gone to New York, so the picture is the trip back.
Look
Lawrence Dallin Clawson shot Farnum in the New York scenes and in the Kentucky feud.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The return from New York to the feud is the whole turn of the outline.
- Ivers, who also adapted Tom Sawyer for Paramount the next year, wrote this script.
- A Commons file names Lloyd and the year.
- No Morosco credit appears on the English Wikipedia credits.
Scenes
- Hale leaves his New York painting to go back to the mountains.
- He walks into the feud between the Brents and the other family.
Influenced by
- Charles Neville Buck’s novel The Call of the Cumberlands
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Call of the Cumberlands (1916) by Frank Lloyd.webm)
