When Bearcat Went Dry
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Still with Bernard J. Durning and Vangie Valentine
When Bearcat Went Dry is a 1919 American drama film directed by Oliver L. Sellers from the novel by Charles Neville Buck, and starring Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers. The title refers to a character nicknamed "Bearcat" (Bernard J. Durning) who promises his girlfriend that he will quit drinking liquor. It was considered a lost film until a print with Dutch titles came to light in a private collection in 1996.
Cast
- Bernard J. Durning ... Turner "Bearcat" Stacy
- Ed Brady ... Rattler Webb
- Lon Chaney ... Kindard Powers
- Winter Hall ... Lone Stacy
- Vangie Valentine ... Blossom Fulkerson
- Walt Whitman ... Joel Fulkerson
- Millard K. Wilson ... Jerry Henderson (billed as M. K. Wilson)
Production
The plot involving a promise to give up drinking was timely given the passage of the Wartime Prohibition Act, which took effect on June 30, 1919, and banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in January of the same year.
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