When Bearcat Went Dry

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.

When Bearcat Went Dry
Still with Bernard J. Durning and Vangie Valentine
Directed byOliver L. Sellers
Based onWhen Bearcat Went Dry
by Charles Neville Buck
StarringEd Brady
Lon Chaney
Bernard J. Durning
CinematographyJack MacKenzie
Production
company
Distributed byWorld Film
Release date
  • November 2, 1919 (1919-11-02)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

Turner Stacy is a wild young man known as "Bearcat" living in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky. Bearcat casts his eye on Blossom Fulkerson whom he promises he will give up drinking. When Bearcat returns home he find Blossom with Jerry Henderson who works in a railroad and Bearcat soon hates him thereafter. A group of mountain men led by the brutish Kindard Powers attack Henderson mistaking him for an officer. The wounded Henderson is rescued by Bearcat after Powers and his men attempt to attack again. Bearcat forces Blossom to marry Henderson but Henderson dies soon after and Bearcat wants to get rid of Powers once and for all. After Bearcat's father is released from prison he attacks and kills Powers. Bearcat and Blossom then marry in the end.

Cast

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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