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The Cricket on the Hearth
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Lorimer Johnston

Cast: Josef Swickard [Caleb Plummer], Fritzi Ridgeway [Bertha Plummer], Paul Gerson [John Perrybingle], Virginia Brown Faire [Dot Marley], Paul Moore [Edward Plummer], Lorimer Johnston [Josiah Tackleton], Margaret Landis [May Fielding], Joan Standing [Tillie Slowboy]

The Paul Gerson Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Selznick Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Caroline Frances Cooke, from the novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens. / © 11 August 1923 by The Paul Gerson Pictures Corporation [LP19311], and 5 October 1923 by The Paul Gerson Pictures Corporation [LU19473]. Released 11 August 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Prints exist in private film collections [35mm positive, 16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Charles Dickens - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 11 May 2018.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 52 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.