The Town That Forgot God
1922•1h 30m•8.0•Released
DramaRomance
A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at losing her, goes away, and he returns years later to find that David, now an orphan, is running away from his cruel foster father, the squire. Eben befriends David, and when the town is destroyed by a storm the two escape harm. An epilog shows David 25 years later as a successful businessman, happily married, helping to rebuild the town.
Director
Harry F. Millarde
Writer
Paul Sloane
Languages
No Language
Studio
Fox Film Corporation
Cast
Warren William
Eben
Jane Thomas
Betty Biggs
Harry Benham
Harry Adams
Raymond Bloomer
David, as a man
Nora Cecil
(uncredited)
Ben Grauer
David, as a boy
Edwin Denison
The Squire
Grace Barton
His Wife
Nina Cassavant
David's Wife
Production
Company
Fox Film Corporation
Producer
Harry F. Millarde
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