Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Director: Harry A. Pollard Cast: Margarita Fischer
Margarita Fischer
, Mona Ray
Mona Ray
, Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey
, James B. Lowe
James B. Lowe
Harry A. Pollard
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Director: Harry A. Pollard Cast: Margarita Fischer
Margarita Fischer
, Mona Ray
Mona Ray
, Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey
, James B. Lowe
James B. Lowe
Harry A. Pollard

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Overview

D. W. Griffith had originally been announced as the director of the Universal "super-production" version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but negotiations fell through and the job went to studio workhorse Harry A. Pollard. Running 141 minutes, this was the most elaborate filmization of the Harriet Beecher Stowe "abolition" classic to date, and even though it wasn't entirely faithful to its source, audiences went home satisfied. James B. Lowe stars as bloody but unbowed slave Uncle Tom (a role traditionally assigned to a white man in blackface!), while George Siegmann, drooling tobacco juice and brandishing a whip with furious abandon, is Evil Personified as Simon Legree. Other familiar roles were filled by Margarita Fischer (a somewhat long-in-tooth Eliza), Virginia Grey (Eva), Mona Ray (Topsy) and Lucien Littlefield (Lawyer Marks) The film owes more to the theatrical versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin than the novel, including the escape of Eliza across the ice, an incident that was invented for the stage. Budgeted at one million dollars, Uncle Tom's Cabin had to be released several times in the 1930s to break even. Excerpts from the film later showed up in the opening scenes of 1955's Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops.

Product Details

Release Date: 08/20/2019
UPC: 0738329239282
Original Release: 1927
Rating: NR
Source: Kino Classics
Language: English
Time: 1:52:00
Sales rank: 40,592

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Margarita Fischer Eliza
Mona Ray Topsy
Virginia Grey Eva
James B. Lowe Uncle Tom
Eulalie Jensen Cassey
George Seigmann Simon Legree
Lucien Littlefield Lawyer Marks
Louise Beavers Actor
Hugo Riesenfeld Composer

Technical Credits
Harry Pollard Producer,Director,Screenwriter
Harvey Thew Screenwriter
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