When Bearcat Went Dry

When Bearcat Went Dry is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Oliver L. Sellers from the novel by Charles Neville Buck, and starring Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers. The title refers to a character nicknamed "Bearcat" (Bernard J. Durning) who promises his girlfriend that he will quit drinking liquor. It was considered to be a lost film until a print with Dutch intertitles came to light in a private collection in 1996.

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• Cast
• Production
• References

Cast

Bernard J. Durning as Turner "Bearcat" Stacy

Ed Brady as Rattler Webb

Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers

Winter Hall as Lone Stacy

Vangie Valentine as Blossom Fulkerson

Walt Whitman as Joel Fulkerson

Millard K. Wilson as Jerry Henderson (credited as M. K. Wilson)

Production

The plot involving a promise to give up drinking was timely given the passage of the Wartime Prohibition Act, which took effect on June 30, 1919, and banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in January of the same year.