The Old Country

1921 film directed by A. V. Bramble

This article is about the 1921 film. For the idea of an immigrant's home country, see Old country. For the album by Nat Adderley's Quintet, see The Old Country (album).

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 (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

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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

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* 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

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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)

## External links

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* The Old Country at IMDb

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Films directed by A. V. Bramble

* Jimmy (1916)
* Fatal Fingers (1916)
* When Paris Sleeps (1917)
* Profit and the Loss (1917)
* The Laughing Cavalier (1917)
* Bonnie Mary (1918)
* The Single Man (1919)
* Her Cross (1919)
* A Smart Set (1919)
* Heart and Soul (1919)
* Wuthering Heights (1920)
* Torn Sails (1920)
* Mr. Gilfil's Love Story (1920)
* Her Benny (1920)
* The Will (1921)
* The Rotters (1921)
* The Prince and the Beggarmaid (1921)
* The Old Country (1921)
* The Bachelor's Club (1921)
* The Little Mother (1922 film) (1922)
* Shirley (1922)
* The Card (1922)
* Zeebrugge (1924)
* Bodiam Castle and Eric the Slender (1926)
* Shooting Stars (1927)
* The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
* Chick (1928)
* A Lucky Sweep (1932)
* Mrs. Dane's Defence (1933)
* The Veteran of Waterloo (1933)

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