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When Bearcat Went Dry
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Ollie L. Sellers

Cast: Vangie Valentine [Blossom Fulkerson], Walt Whitman [Joel Fulkerson], Bernard Dunning [Turner ‘Bearcat’ Stacy], Winter Hall [Lone Stacy], Ed Brady [Rattler Webb], M.K. Wilson [Jerry Henderson], Lon Chaney [Kindard Powers]

C.R. Macauley Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by World Film Corporation. / From the novel When ‘Bear Cat’ Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck. Assistant director, Justin McCloskey. Cinematography by Jack Mackenzie. / © 13 September 1919 by C.R. Macauley Photoplays, Incorporated [LU14296]. Released 2 November 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Rural.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute / William Buffum collection) [35mm nitrate positive]; and in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: USA: Kentucky - Weddings

Listing updated: 11 May 2018.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4881; Blake-Films p. xv; Spehr-American p. 100; Weaver-Twenty p. 76 : Website-GEM.

Home video: DVD.