Drink (film)
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Directed bySidney Morgan
Written by
- Sidney Morgan
- Charles Reade (play)
- Émile Zola (novel)
Produced byHarry T. Roberts
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| Directed by | Sidney Morgan |
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| Produced by | Harry T. Roberts |
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Production company | British Pictures |
| Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
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Running time | 6,000 feet |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Drink is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Fred Groves, Irene Browne and Alice O'Brien.[1] It was the film version of a play by Charles Reade, first performed in 1879 and based on Émile Zola's novel, L'Assommoir.[2]
A laundress takes to drink and dies after her alcoholic husband goes mad.
Cast
- Fred Groves as Coupeau
- Irene Browne as Gervaise
- Alice O'Brien as Virginie
- George Foley as Gouget
- Lionel d'Aragon as Auguste Lautier
- Arthur Walcott as Chabot
- Joan Morgan as Gervaise, as a child
- Stanley Arthur as Bibi
- William Brandon as Mes-Bottes
