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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1541

Ten Nights in a Barroom

192663 minUnited States

Synopsis

After losing his mill through fraud, a man turns increasingly to drink. A fatal incident involving his daughter forces a reckoning that takes his life from private collapse toward public reform.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 63:06
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Roy Calnek · Public domain

Cast

Charles Gilpin

Lawrence Chenault

Myra Burwell

DirectorsRoy Calnek

Inspirations

The all-Black cast reworks the familiar temperance story from T. S. Arthur's novel and its stage adaptations. Produced during Prohibition, it survives as part of the Colored Players Film Corporation's limited remaining output.

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