Uncle Tom's cabin

Author

Harry Pollard

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Definitive edition.

Languages

Silent film with English intertitles.

Performers

James B. Lowe, Margarita Fisher, George Siegmann, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Virginia Grey.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : Kino Classics, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 112 minutes) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated; "WARNING: This uncensored presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin features language and racial stereotypes that some viewers may find objectionable. Viewer discretion is advised."--Container.

Summary

"An earnest attempt to depict the harsh realities of slavery, Harry Pollard's Uncle Tom's Cabin was--at an advertised cost of $2 million--one of the most extravagant epics of its time. Margarita Fisher stars as Eliza, a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)."--Container.

Notes

"The definitive edition of the 1927 epic"--Container.

From the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1927.

Special features: 2K restoration of the original 1927 release with Movietone score by Erno Rapée ; complete 1958 re-issue version, introduced and narrated by Raymond Massey ; audio commentary by historian Edward J. Blum ; new 2K master of the 1914 World Film version, starring Sam Lucas, preserved by the Library of Congress, music by Andrew Earle Simpson ; new 2K master of the 1910 Vitagraph version, directed by J. Stuart Blackton.