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Black Beauty (1921 film)

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Drama

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Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
January 1921 (1921-01) (USA)

Based on
  
the novel by Anna Sewell

Writer
  
Anna Sewell (novel), George Randolph Chester (adaptation), William B. Courtney (scenario), Lillian Christy Chester (adaptation)

Screenplay
  
George Randolph Chester, Lillian Christy Chester, William B. Courtney

Cast
  
(Jessie Gordon), (Mrs Blomefield), (Mrs Gordon), (Vicar Blomefield), (John Manly )

Black Beauty is a 1921 American silent film version of Anna Sewell's novel of the same name. Black Beauty is an autobiography of a horse, who tells the story of his life and of the people surrounding him. This film exists in an incomplete state with four of seven reels preserved at the Library of Congress.

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Black beauty instrumental by focus


Plot

As summarized in a film publication, a human love story was added to the horse story, which includes a fox hunt and race. At a house party given by Squire Gordon (Steppling), his daughter Jessie (Paige) and Harry Blomefield (Morrison) are playing games with the children, although they have reached the age where Harry realizes that he loves her. Among the guests is Jack Beckett (Webb), who lives by his wits and has gained entree as a favorite of the haughty Lady Wynsaring (Farrington). Squire Gordon gives Lord Wynwaring (Peacocke) 800 pounds for his wife's charity, which Jack steals from the Wynwaring room. During a fox hunt the next morning, Jessie's brother George (Kenny) is killed in a fall from his horse. Jack puts the stolen money in the pocket of the dead man and tells Jessie that her brother was a thief. To prevent him from telling her mother, Jessie agrees to marry Jack when she comes of age. Jessie meanwhile realizes that she loves Harry, who cannot understand her wish to marry Jack. Several years pass and Harry tries to elope with Jessie, but is foiled. After a race sequence, Black Beauty carries Harry to victory and to Jessie, foiling the plans of the villain Jack.

Cast

  • Jean Paige as Jessie Gordon
  • James Morrison as Harry Blomefield
  • George Webb as Jack Beckett
  • Bobby Mack as Derby Ghost
  • John Steppling as Squire Gordon
  • Leslie T. Peacocke as Lord Wynwaring
  • Adele Farrington as Lady Wynsaring
  • Chick Morrison as John Manly
  • Mollie McConnell as Mrs. Gordon
  • Colin Kenny as George Gordon
  • Georgia French as Flora Gordon
  • Robert Bolder as Vicar Blomefield
  • Margaret Mann as Mrs. Blomefield
  • George C. Pearce as Farmer Grey
  • James Connelly as Fat Bailiff
  • Robert Milasch as Lean Bailiff
  • James Donnelly
  • Production

    For its 1929 re-release, the film was cut to 35 minutes.

    References

    Black Beauty (1921 film) Wikipedia
    Black Beauty (1921 film) IMDb


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