Drama · United States of America · 1930 · 1h 5m

Tol'able David

Director

Cast

Richard Cromwell as David Kinemon Noah Beery as Luke Joan Peers as Esther Hatburn Henry B. Walthall as Amos Hatburn Tom Keene as Alan Kinemon Edmund Breese as Hunter Kinemon

Crew

Ted Tetzlaff — Director of Photography Glen Wheeler — Editor Benjamin Glazer — Writer Joseph Hergesheimer — Novel

Synopsis

Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.

Mood & Themes

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Key Collaborators

John G. Blystone Director Ted Tetzlaff Director of Photography Glen Wheeler Editor Benjamin Glazer Writer Joseph Hergesheimer Novel

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