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The Clodhopper

191746 minUnited States
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Driven away by his demanding father, farm worker Everett Nelson seeks employment in New York. A showman turns his unusual country dance into a profitable attraction. Trouble at the family bank then brings his sweetheart to the city, asking him to help the father whose treatment made him leave.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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46:17
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Victor Schertzinger. · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsVictor Schertzinger

Historical context

Charles Ray's country boy finds a market for the manners that might otherwise make him an outsider. The comedy-drama contrasts a banker's authority at home with the value his son discovers in the entertainment business.

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