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Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • 19141914
  • 54m
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5.6/10
169
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
Drama
A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
169
YOUR RATING
    • William Robert Daly
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe(novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
    • George L. Aiken(play)
    • Edward McWade
  • Stars
    • Sam Lucas
    • Walter Hitchcock
    • Hattie Delaro
    • William Robert Daly
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe(novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
    • George L. Aiken(play)
    • Edward McWade
  • Stars
    • Sam Lucas
    • Walter Hitchcock
    • Hattie Delaro
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    • 4User reviews
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
    Marie Eline in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
    Irving Cummings in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
    Marie Eline and Sam Lucas in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)

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    Sam Lucas
    • Uncle Tom
    Walter Hitchcock
    • George Shelby
    Hattie Delaro
    • Mrs. Shelby
    Master Abernathy
    • George Shelby Jr
    Teresa Michelena
    • Eliza
    Irving Cummings
    Irving Cummings
    • George Harris
    Paul Scardon
    Paul Scardon
    • Haley
    Marie Eline
    Marie Eline
    • Little Eva St. Clair
    Garfield Thompson
    • St. Clair
    Roy Applegate
    Roy Applegate
    • Simon Legree
    Boots Wall
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    Irvin Willat
    Irvin Willat
    • George Shelby Jr. - as an adult
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    • (uncredited)
      • William Robert Daly
      • Harriet Beecher Stowe(novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
      • George L. Aiken(play)
      • Edward McWade
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    • Trivia
      Sam Lucas in the title role is generally considered the first black actor in a leading role in a feature film.
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Simpsons: Gorgeous Grampa (2013)

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    first black leads in films
    This is the first time a back American actor played the part of Uncle Tom on screen (Lucas, an enormously important figure in African American theatre and film, also played the part on stage) but it is not the first time a black actor had played the lead in a film.

    Black actors, including vaudevillians John and Mattie Edwards and Joseph Outen, had already starred in Sigmund Lubin's Coloured Comedies (see my review of Rastus Among the Zulus). While these films may not be terribly politically correct, they gave important opportunities to black performers and were very popular, especially in the South, presumably because of the sheer pleasure for African American cinema-goers to see black stars on the screen.

    Lucas was also one of an all-black troupe who appeared in the sadly unfinished 1913 Biograph film Lime Kiln Field Day (pretty much a feature) starring black Ziegfield Follies star Bert Williams who would go on to star in further Biograph shorts in 1916.

    One aspect to note in this version of the Stowe novel is the way the words of the foreword - "This is the story of an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, were brought to the New World by heartless traders, and sold into slavery" - later unpleasantly (and absurdly) twisted to suggest that their coming was the cause of all the nation's problems in Griffith's prefatory titles to Birth of a Nation. Griffith also re-created the "cabin" for his racist film.
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      • August 10, 1914 (United States)
      • United States
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    • 54 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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