David and Jonathan
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Dion Titheradge
Madge Titheradge
Geoffrey Webb
Richard Ryan
G. B. Samuelson
E. Temple Thurston
Film Details
Synopsis
David Mortlake and Jonathan Hawkesley became fast friends as schoolboys, though David preferred studies and Jonathan was given to athletics. While both are attending Oxford, David takes the blame for a prank of Jonathan's and is expelled, reasoning that his independent wealth makes him better able than Jonathan to bear the disgrace. Years later, David and Jonathan, on a boat to West Africa, take an interest in fellow passenger Joan Meredith before their boat burns, and all take to lifeboats and rafts. Washed ashore on an uninhabited coastal area, David and Jonathan are soon joined by Joan, the only survivor on her life boat. Over time both men fall in love with Joan, who hesitates in deciding between the two. David, despairing of winning Joan away from the more masculine Jonathan, leaves the area on a rescue ship, later sending help back to Joan and Jonathan. Joan, however, decides that she really loves David and summons him to her family's London home, where they are united.
Director
Dion Titheradge
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British producer Samuelson made this film in America in the first half of 1920 and released it in England as a six-reeler in mid-1920, but it was probably not shown publicly in America until early 1922, when it was distributed by Second National as a five-reeler. Modern sources list Alexander Butler, rather than Dion Titheradge, as director, and state that Sidney Wood and Jack Perks played David as a child and Jonathan as a child, respectively. The copyright catalog cites Thurston as having written a play, as well as a novel, called David and Jonathan, but no evidence of the existence of the play has been located. One modern source states that the film was made in Universal City.
