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File: Tol'able David (1921).webm
Author: Henry King (1886-1982)
Publisher: Associated First National
Year: 1921
PD: PD-US|1982
Note:
Cat: Drama film, Silent film
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INSPIRATION PICTURES, Inc.
Charles H. Duell,
PRESIDENT
presents
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
00:13
in
"TOL'ABLE DAVID"
BY
Joseph Hergesheimer
A FIRST NATIONAL ATTRACTION
Copyright 1921
by
Associated First National Pictures, Inc.
00:29
Directed by
Henry King.
00:37
Screen Adaptation by
EDMUND GOULDING
AND
HENRY KING.
Edited by
DUNCAN MANSFIELD.
Photographed by
HENRY CRONJAGER.
00:50
Behind three great ranges of mountains lay the pastoral valley of Greenstream.
01:12
There the Kinemons had long made their home as tenants on the rich farm of John Galt.
01:34
Hunter Kinemon kept the biblical tradition of a family united by every tie of love and honor.
01:51
Mrs. Kinemon,
mother of a home her tenderness helped create.
02:02
David,
the youngest son, was called his mother's boy.
02:33
Allan,
the elder son, reckoned the strongest man in Greenstream County.
02:46
Rose,
Allan's wife, loved as a daughter of the house.
02:56
"It's eight o'clock, and time for bed."
03:23
The morning rose serene and pure over the village of Greenstream.
06:18
Esther,
the granddaughter of neighbor Hatburn.
06:59
"Can you spare us a cup of sugar? I'd fetch it back tomorrow."
08:56
"Allan, if you want to stay home with Rose today, I'll drive the hack for you."
09:07
"Why, David, you're too young to carry the government mail!"
09:17
"But I'll drive the hack when you go railroading!"
09:40
"You won't be a man for a spell yet, David, but you're tol'able--just tol'able."
10:17
The sun crossing the eastern mountains found Greenstream peacefully awake.
10:30
Allan drove the daily hack 20 miles into West Virginia.
10:41
John Galt,
storekeeper, village postmaster, and richest man in the Valley.
11:22
On such a gentle summer day it seemed that nothing could disturb the peace of Greenstream.
12:36
"I'll beat you playing mumble-ty-peg."
13:15
"Remember you're not well, Pa, and don't overdo yourself."
13:28
But trouble like the shadow of a black cloud hurried across the countryside toward Greenstream.
13:59
"Don't shoot! They're across the State line. We're well rid of them."
14:07
Iska Hatburn,
chief of a fugitive family.
14:16
His elder son, Luke, whose peculiar humor it was to destroy whatever he encountered.
14:37
Little "Buzzard" Hatburn, the baby of the clan.
15:00
"A cousin of ours lives in here. We'll find him--get something to eat, and lay up a while."
15:25
Elbow Barren, the home of Neighbor Hatburn.
16:21
"I'll bet there's not a man in the County who can snare a trout like that."
16:33
"Yes, David, you're right tol'able--"
16:39
"--for a boy."
16:51
Neighbor Hatburn.
17:36
"What are you laughing at?"
18:35
"Are you sure it was the trout you were after?"
18:53
"Laugh if you want to, but I'll--I'll bet there's not a man in this County can snare a trout or shoot like David."
19:38
"Don't you know us? We're your cousins."
20:04
"I thought you were in jail."
20:12
"We were. Then we had a little trouble over Tug River way, and came to visit with you till it blows past."
20:30
"We won't trouble you--much. We can sleep anywhere."
20:57
"Pap, I'm hungry."
21:55
"Well, what are you waiting for?"
22:05
"We're not ghosts--we got to eat!"
24:28
"Who are these strangers?"
24:37
"From now on I don't want anybody hanging around here."
24:52
"Grandpa says they're cousins from up Tug River, and the Sheriff is after them."
25:15
"Shall we go back and lick 'em, Rocket?"
25:34
Today Allan drove recklessly--anxious to get home.
25:50
"Say, what's the hurry?"
26:26
"It's a boy and weighs ten pounds!"
26:58
"He's a Kinemon all over, just like you."
27:12
"Well, David, you're not the baby of this house any more."
27:18
"David must always be my baby."
29:02
"You have a lot of time to learn to smoke."
30:22
"I'm afraid of those Hatburns."
30:30
"When one of them looks at me he--"
30:46
"If they get ugly you send for me."
30:58
"David, they'd mow you down like a clump of daisies."
31:39
"Hey! It's a boy and weighs ten pounds."
31:55
With the passing weeks Rose thought her baby became more and more a Kinemon.
32:12
"I reckon you won't need a doctor around here for a while."
32:31
"Hunter is bothered with that old pain again, and we can't drive him to see you."
33:26
"I've been telling the doctor about your bad spells."
33:41
A wave of love swept over David--a love for everything and everybody that made his home.
34:17
"Where is that dog?"
34:21
"Allan took Rocket with him this morning."
36:14
"Hatburn, you killed my brother's dog! I have government mail and passengers now, but when I'm through--I'll be back."
37:18
"What happened--an accident?"
37:24
"No, but there will be if you don't 'tend your own business."
41:06
The shadow of the black cloud had crept across the Kinemon home.
42:45
"I'd thank you to drive the hack to Greenstream and not bother the Sheriff."
43:23
"Allan is helpless for life."
43:46
"We can do nothing more now. I'll call back this way tonight."
44:51
It seemed to David he waited an eternity for his father to move.
45:58
"Hunter, you've been a mighty good husband--I pray God will send you back."
46:50
"Us Kinemons can revenge our own."
46:58
"Put that gun up and help your Ma."
48:09
The realization that death had shifted the burden of the Kinemon honor to him.
48:30
"Damn and Damn the Hatburns! I'll kill 'em all."
49:00
"You're my little David. You can't go. They'd kill you."
49:11
"There's Rose and the baby. You're the only man we have now."
50:00
With Hunter Kinemon dead and Allan crippled they were forced to move from the place that held all their past happiness.
50:18
"It's hard leaving our old home, Mr. Galt."
50:26
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Kinemon, but it takes a man to manage the cattle."
50:45
How could David let them see the grief that was choking him at the destruction of what he loved most.
51:45
"David, is there anything I can do?"
51:51
"I hate you and everything that's Hatburn!"
52:14
"We haven't left a thing--nothing at all."
52:53
In the poverty of a small dwelling in the Village the Kinemons tried to hide their sadness from each other.
53:51
"No David, you can't drive the hack. You're too young to be trusted with the mail."
54:10
"If I was David Kinemon I'd have fed them Hatburns a dose of hot lead."
54:20
To David's unhappy mind it seemed that all the Valley held him a coward.
54:56
"I was just telling Rose you'd be better off with me dead."
56:15
"David, run down to the store and fetch some soap."
57:16
"It's like David blames it on Esther and me, and that's not right, Mrs. Kinemon, it's not right."
57:42
"David doesn't mean it, Esther."
58:00
"I've made up my mind--"
58:04
"You can't drive the hack--"
58:16
"But you can start to work in the store tomorrow morning."
58:29
"Thank you, Mr. Galt. I'll--be here."
58:43
Life went on unhindered by individual sorrow and the gaiety of a dance filled the schoolhouse.
59:47
"I just had to bring Esther tonight, she wanted to come so bad."
1:03:32
David resolved to meet every obligation of his fully accepted responsibility.
1:04:59
"If you don't aim to ride with me you can walk."
1:05:16
"You're fired for good!"
1:05:23
"You can't fire me. I quit!"
1:05:36
"What'll you do now? I'll miss the through train."
1:06:03
"David, I'll have to let you drive the hack today."
1:08:53
"This has gone on long enough. It's got to stop."
1:09:29
The afternoon was passing from Greenstream with its appearance of old serenity.
1:09:46
"I tell you Sheriff I can't stand them. Something must be done to get them out of my house."
1:10:30
"They'd be arrested now for crippling Allan Kinemon but Court's three months off and the jail wouldn't hold 'em."
1:12:40
"Let him tell at the Village he lost the government mail."
1:13:22
"I guess I'll wait for David with the mail."
1:13:52
He had passed no one on the road but a Hatburn.
1:16:08
"I only tried to clip off his ear, but he moved."
1:17:06
"Don't hinder me. I'm the Government's agent--and David Kinemon too."
1:21:30
"I wonder what's happened---David's late."
1:21:40
"You can depend on David. His ambition has always been to drive the hack."
1:23:11
POST
OFFICE
1:23:33
"It seems only yesterday he was a child and sat on my knee while I read his favorite story of David and Goliath, and now--he's a man and driving the government mail."
1:25:01
"I won't wait for the mail. I must hurry home to Esther."
1:27:12
"David--they've killed him!"
1:28:20
Responsibility, conquering his broken body, drove him on.
1:29:40
In the darkness upon him a single determination lived--he must keep the horses on the road, he must deliver the mail.
1:32:39
"David, you're wonderful!"
1:32:50
"Ma's right. I'm only tol'able--just tol'able."
1:33:09
TOL'ABLE DAVID
THE END
FIRST
NATIONAL
PICTURES
A First National Attraction