Uncle Tom's cabin / Carle Laemmle presents ; from the story by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; a Harry A. Pollard production ; a Universal Production ; directed by Harry A. Pollard.
Edition:
[Definitive edition of the 1927 epic].
Publisher:
Kino Classics :
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (115 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
James Lowe, George Siegmann, Virginia Grey, Margarita Fisher. Originally released as a motion picture in 1927. Special features: 1958 re-issue version, 1914 World Film version, 1910 Vitagraph version.
Summary:
Eliza is 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).
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