When Bearcat Went Dry
| When Bearcat Went Dry | |
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_-_2.jpg) Still with Bernard J. Durning and Vangie Valentine | |
| Directed by | Oliver L. Sellers |
| Starring | Ed Brady Lon Chaney Bernard J. Durning |
| Cinematography | Jack MacKenzie |
Production company | Charles R. McCauley Photoplays |
| Distributed by | World Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
When Bearcat Went Dry is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Oliver L. Sellers from the novel by Charles Neville Buck, and starring Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers.[1] The title refers to a character nicknamed "Bearcat" (Bernard J. Durning) who promises his girlfriend that he will quit drinking liquor. It was considered to be a lost film until a print with Dutch intertitles came to light in a private collection in 1996.[citation needed]
Cast
- Bernard J. Durning as Turner "Bearcat" Stacy
- Ed Brady as Rattler Webb
- Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers
- Winter Hall as Lone Stacy
- Vangie Valentine as Blossom Fulkerson
- Walt Whitman as Joel Fulkerson
- Millard K. Wilson as Jerry Henderson (credited as M. K. Wilson)
Production
The plot involving a promise to give up drinking was timely given the passage of the Wartime Prohibition Act, which took effect on June 30, 1919, and banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in January of the same year.
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