''Free Air'' is a 1922 American
silent comedy drama film directed by
Edward H. Griffith and starring
Tom Douglas, Marjorie Seaman and
Henry G. Sell
Henry G. Sell (July 31, 1884 – August 20, 1968) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in a number of serial film, serials produced by Pathé Exchange including several with Pearl White.
After leaving film acting in 1922, he ...
. It is an adaptation of the 1919 novel ''
Free Air'' by
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the America ...
.
Plot
Cast
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Tom Douglas as Milt Daggett
* Marjorie Seaman as Claire Boltwood
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George Pauncefort as Henry B. Boltwood
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Henry G. Sell
Henry G. Sell (July 31, 1884 – August 20, 1968) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in a number of serial film, serials produced by Pathé Exchange including several with Pearl White.
After leaving film acting in 1922, he ...
as Jeffrey Saxton
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Dorothy Allen as Minne Rauskekle
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Ben Hendricks Jr. as The Tramp
Preservation
This film is currently
lost.
''Free Air'' at silentera.com
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References
Bibliography
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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allmovie.com
1922 films
1922 comedy films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Edward H. Griffith
Films distributed by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation
Silent American comedy films
1920s American films
English-language comedy films
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