Tol'able David

Tol'able David

1930 · 65 min · ★ 8.5 · Drama

Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.

Directed by John G. Blystone · Written by Benjamin Glazer

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Richard Cromwell David Kinemon
Noah Beery Luke
Joan Peers Esther Hatburn
Henry B. Walthall Amos Hatburn
Tom Keene Alan Kinemon
Edmund Breese Hunter Kinemon
Barbara Bedford Rose Kinemon
Helen Ware Mrs. Kinemon
Harlan Knight Iska Hatburn
John Carradine Buzzard Hatburn
James Bradbury Sr. Galt
Richard Carlyle Doctor

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