Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) [1958 Re-Issue Version] [1080p]
Channel: The Cinema Cellar
Date: 2023-07-08

'Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) is a silent film directed by Harry A. Pollard and released by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was the last silent film version. A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress.

In this version of the film, all of the major slave roles, with the exception of Uncle Tom himself, were portrayed by white actors. Actress Mona Ray played the slave Topsy in blackface, while the slaves Eliza, George, Cassie and Harry were all presented as having very light skin coloring because of mixed-race heritage. This film was released on DVD in 1999 by Kino.

The title role was originally played by the notable stage actor Charles Gilpin but he quit amid onset dissatisfaction with the depiction of the role and was replaced by James B. Lowe, reshooting the sections already filmed with Gilpin.

The film was rereleased in 1958 with sound added and narration by Raymond Massey.

Cast
Margarita Fischer as Eliza
James B. Lowe as Uncle Tom
Arthur Edmund Carewe as George Harris
George Siegmann as Simon Legree
Eulalie Jensen as Cassie
Mona Ray as Topsy
Virginia Grey as Eva St. Clare
Lassie Lou Ahern as Little Harry
Lucien Littlefield as Lawyer Marks
Adolph Milar as Mr. Tom Haley
J. Gordon Russell as Tom Loker
Gertrude Howard as Aunt Chloe, (Uncle Tom's wife)
Jack Mower as Mr. Shelby
Vivien Oakland as Mrs. Shelby
John Roche as Augustine St. Clare
Aileen Manning as Aunt Ophelia

Unbilled
Tom Amardares – Quimbo
Gertrude Astor – Mrs. St. Clare
Grace Carlyle – Mrs. Fletcher
Matthew Beard – Child
Louise Beavers – Slave at Wedding
William Dyer – G.M. Beard – Auctioneer
Francis Ford – Captain
Eugene Jackson – Child
Carla Laemmle – Auction Spectator
Jeanette Loff – Auction Spectator
Nelson McDowell – Phineas Fletcher
Rolfe Sedan – Adolph
Madame Sul-Te-Wan – Slave at Wedding
Dick Sutherland – Sambo
Clarence Wilson – Bidder at Eliza's Auction

Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Written by Harvey F. Thew (continuity)
A. P. Younger (continuity)
Walter Anthony (intertitles)
Based on Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Produced by Carl Laemmle
Starring Margarita Fischer
Arthur Edmund Carewe
George Siegmann
Cinematography Charles Stumar
Jacob Kull
Edited by Gilmore Walker
Daniel Mandell
Byron Robinson
Ted Kent
Music by Erno Rapee
Hugo Riesenfeld (1928 re-release in Movietone)
Production
company 
Universal Studios
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date 
November 4, 1927
Running time 112 minutes (13 reels)
Country United States
Languages Silent
English intertitles'

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin_(1927_film)