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The Family Honor
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 5584 feet
Directed by King W. Vidor (King Vidor)

Cast: Florence Vidor [Beverly Tucker], Roscoe Karns [Dal Tucker], Ben Alexander [Little Ben Tucker], Charles Meredith [Merie Curran], George Nichols [Mayor Curran], J.P. Lockney [Felix], Willis Marks [Dobbs], Harold Goodwin [the grocer boy]

King Vidor Productions production; distributed by First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, Incorporated. / Scenario by William Parker, from a screen story by John Booth Harrower. Cinematography by Ira H. Morgan. Presented by King W. Vidor (King Vidor). / Released 15 March 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Vidor’s first independent production. Working title: The Battle of Youth. Some location photography taken at Sunland, California.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1273.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cinémathèque française film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: USA: California: Sunland

Listing updated: 19 November 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1273; Dowd-Vidor pp. 21, 22, 25 : Website-AFI.