The Sport of the Gods
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Henry Vernot
Director
Elizabeth Boyer
Kitty Hamilton
Edward R. Abrams
Jim Skaggs
George Edward Brown
Joe Hamilton
Leon Williams
Berry Hamilton
Lucille Brown
Fannie Hamilton
Film Details
Release Date
Jan
1921
Premiere Information
Washington showing: ca23 Apr 1921
Production Company
Reol Productions Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Sport of the Gods by Paul Lawrence Dunbar (New York, 1902).
Synopsis
A black Virginian named Hamilton is unjustly sent to prison to save the reputation of his white employer's son, a gambler. Hamilton's family moves to New York to escape the scorn and gossip of their neighbors. The son falls in with evil companions, and the daughter becomes a singer in an underworld cabaret. Hamilton man is released from jail due to the ingenuity of his daughters' lover and follows his family to New York, only to discover that his wife, convinced that a penitentiary sentence is the same as a divorce, has remarried. After numerous complications, all ends well.
Director
Henry Vernot
Director
Cast
Elizabeth Boyer
Kitty Hamilton
Edward R. Abrams
Jim Skaggs
George Edward Brown
Joe Hamilton
Leon Williams
Berry Hamilton
Lucille Brown
Fannie Hamilton
Lindsay J. Hall
Maurice Oakley
Jean Armour
Julia Oakley
Stanley Walpole
Francis Oakley
Walter Thomas
Thomas
Lawrence Chenault
"Sadness"
Ruby Mason
Mrs. Jones
Edna Morton Wilson
Hattie Sterling
Jim Burris
Manager
Dink Stewart
Film Details
Release Date
Jan
1921
Premiere Information
Washington showing: ca23 Apr 1921
Production Company
Reol Productions Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Sport of the Gods by Paul Lawrence Dunbar (New York, 1902).
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According to modern sources, Clarence Muse wrote the screenplay for this film.
