Down Home is a 1920 American silent drama film written, directed, and produced by Irvin Willat and starring Leatrice Joy and James Barrows. It was distributed by the independent film distributor W. W. Hodkinson.[1] A copy survives at the Library of Congress.[2]

Down Home
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Directed byIrvin Willat
Written byIrvin Willat (scenario)
Based onDabney Todd
by Frank N. Westcott
Produced byIrvin Willat
StarringLeatrice Joy
CinematographyFrank Blount
Andrew Webber
Distributed byW. W. Hodkinson Corporation
Release date
  • October 1920 (1920-10)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The film is based on the novel Dabney Todd, by F. N. Westcott,[1] which was also probably a basis of Something to Think About, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which was produced at the same time.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: Down Home at silentera.com, , September 5, 2014.
  2. ^ Down Home, The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog.
  3. ^ Robert S. Birchard,Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0.
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