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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5556 feet
Directed by Oliver L. Sellers

Cast: Henry Hull [Ralph Hartsook], Jane Thomas [Hannah Thompson], Frank Dane [Doctor Small], Mary Foy [old Mis’ Means], Walter Palm [Old Jack Means], Nat Pendleton [Bud Means], Dorothy Allen [Mirandy Means], G.W. Hall [Bill Means], George Pelzer [Squire Hawkins], Arthur Ludwig [Pete Jones], Frank Andrews [John Pearson], Harold McArthur [Walter Johnson], Tom Brown [Shocky Thompson], Adolf Link [Dutchy Snyder], Jerry Sinclair [Prosecuting Attorney Bronson], Dorothy Walters [Nancy Sawyer], Dick Lee [Jeems Phillips], [?] Chic Sale?

Whitman Bennett Productions production; distributed by W.W. Hodkinson Corporation [?] through Producers Distributing Corporation? / Scenario by Eve Stuyvesant, from the novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston. Cinematography by Edward Paul. Presented by Whitman Bennett. / © 21 January 1924 by Whitman Bennett Productions [LP19850]. Released 14 February 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 November 2017.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 112 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.