Basic Info

Release: October 30, 1922

The Town That Forgot God

1922

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama Romance

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

No Language xx

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Cast

Ben Grauer

David, as a boy

Warren William

Eben

Jane Thomas

Betty Biggs

Harry Benham

Harry Adams

Edwin Denison

The Squire

Grace Barton

His Wife

Raymond Bloomer

David, as a man

Nina Cassavant

David's Wife

Nora Cecil

(uncredited)

Crew

Harry F. Millarde

Director

Paul Sloane

Writer

Harry F. Millarde

Producer

Joseph Ruttenberg

Cinematography

Al Wilson