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Quincy Adams Sawyer is a american film of genre Drama directed by Clarence G. Badger released in USA on 4 december 1922 with John Bowers

Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)

Quincy Adams Sawyer
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Released in USA 4 december 1922
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama

Quincy Adams Sawyer was a 1922 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Clarence G. Badger. Distributed by Metro Pictures, the film is based on the 1900 novel Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, written by Charles Felton Pidgin. It is now presumed lost.



^ Info "Screenplay Info for Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2010-01-15.

^ "Quincy Adams Sawyer". silentera.com. Retrieved March 6, 2013.

Synopsis

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park. He is immediately smitten with her, but is summoned to the village of Mason's Corners by his father's friend Deacon Pettengill to investigate a villainous lawyer named Obadiah Strout before he can pursue her. Meanwhile, Mrs. Putnam, an old woman, is being swindled by Strout. Putnam's daughter Lindy, a natural vamp, attempts to seduce Sawyer. He shows interest, until he finds out who the girl from the park is: Alice, Pettengill's niece who has become blind since their first meeting.

Actors

John Bowers

(Quincy Adams Sawyer)Blanche Sweet

(Alice Pettengill)Lon Chaney

(Obadiah Strout)Barbara La Marr

(Lindy Putnam)Elmo Lincoln

(Abner Stiles)
And :
Louise Fazenda
Joseph J. Dowling
Claire McDowell
Victor Potel
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