The Headless Horseman (1922 film)
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Cinematography Ned Van Buren Director Edward D. Venturini Initial release 5 November 1922 (USA) Story by Washington Irving | 5.2/10 IMDb Produced by Carl Stearns Clancy Screenplay Carl Stearns Clancy Producer Carl Stearns Clancy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Washington IrvingCarl Stearns Clancy Based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving Starring Will RogersLois MeredithBen Hendricks Jr. Cast Will Rogers, Lois Meredith, Ben Hendricks Jr. Similar The Legend of Sleepy Hollow movies, Teacher movies, Horror movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The headless horseman the legend of sleepy hollow 1922 silent classic
The Headless Horseman is a 1922 American horror film adaption of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow starring Will Rogers, Lois Meredith (in her last major on-screen appearance), and Ben Hendricks Jr. that was directed by Edward D. Venturini. It was the first panchromatic black-and-white feature film.
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- The headless horseman the legend of sleepy hollow 1922 silent classic
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Preservation
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Plot
The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he begins to pursue the beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt, who is courting her. Crane's harsh, small-minded approach to teaching also turns some of the villagers against him. Soon there are many who would like to see him leave the village altogether.
Cast
Production
The unlikable, stern schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who at one point beats a student, was played by Rogers, a popular actor playing against his typical roles for which he received $19,583.20. For authenticity, filming took place in the Hudson River Valley around Tarrytown, New York, the setting of Washington Irving's story, with its Dutch farm houses and covered bridges. The Headless Horseman was the first black-and-white feature film photographed entirely on panchromatic stock, which, while two to three times more expensive, did not have the tendency to turn blue eyes and skies white and lipstick as black like the commonly used orthochromatic film did. One effective special effect was the use of a double exposure to give the headless horseman a phantom-like appearance.
Preservation
Copies of the The Headless Horseman exist in several collections and it has been released on DVD.
