The Old Country

The Old Country
The Old Country
Directed by	A. V. Bramble
Written by	Dion Clayton Calthrop (play) ; Eliot Stannard
Starring	Gerald McCarthy; Kathleen Vaughan; Haidee Wright ; George Bellamy
Production; company	Ideal Film Company
Distributed by	Ideal Film Company
Release date	1921;
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Old Country is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Gerald McCarthy, Kathleen Vaughan and Haidee Wright.^[1]

It adapts a play by Dion Clayton Calthrop (same year, same title).^[2]^[3] The play was adapted by Eliot Stannard, being one of various scripts he based on literary works in the late 1910s-early 1920s.^[4]

Premise

A Yankee planter buys a squire's house, where he installs his exiled mother, to learn that he is in fact the squire's son.^[5]

Cast

Gerald McCarthy – James Fountain
Kathleen Vaughan – Mary Lorimer
Haidee Wright – Mrs. Fountain^[6]
George Bellamy – Squire
Ethel Newman – Annette Alborough
Stanley Roberts – Austin Wells
Sidney Paxton – Steward

References

^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | The OLD COUNTRY (1921)". web.archive.org. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
^ Gifford, Denis (24 October 2018). The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-83702-2.
^ Barlowe, Jamie (8 August 2024). Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-040-10080-6.
^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.
^ Picture Show (Oct 1920-Apr 1921). Media History Digital Library. London. 1920.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

External links

The Old Country at IMDb

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[1] "BFI | Film & TV Database | The OLD COUNTRY (1921)". web.archive.org. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2025.

[2] Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.

[3] Gifford, Denis (24 October 2018). The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-83702-2.

[4] Barlowe, Jamie (8 August 2024). Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-040-10080-6.

[5] Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.

[6] Picture Show (Oct 1920-Apr 1921). Media History Digital Library. London. 1920.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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