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Author: Henry King (1886-1982)

Publisher: Associated First National

Year: 1921

PD: PD-US|1982

Note:

Cat: Drama film, Silent film


00:00

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.

EDMUND GURNEY


01:51

Mrs. Kinemon,

mother of a home her tenderness helped create.

MARION ABBOTT


02:02

David,

the youngest son, was called his mother's boy.

RICHARD BARTHELMESS


02:33

Allan,

the elder son, reckoned the strongest man in Greenstream County.

WARNER RICHMOND


02:46

Rose,

Allan's wife, loved as a daughter of the house.

PATTERSON DIAL


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.

GLADYS HULETTE


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.

LAWRENCE EDDINGER


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.

WALTER LEWIS


14:16

His elder son, Luke, whose peculiar humor it was to destroy whatever he encountered.

ERNEST TORRANCE


14:37

Little "Buzzard" Hatburn, the baby of the clan.

RALPH YEARSLEY


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.

FORREST ROBINSON


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