The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes75%
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Charles BrabinDirector
- Adelaide HeilbronWriter
Cast
- Colleen MooreSelina Peake
- Joseph De GrasseSimeon Peake
- John BowersPervus DeJong
- Ben LyonDirk DeJong
- Wallace BeeryKlaus Poole
- Gladys BrockwellMaartje Poole
- Jean HersholtAug Hempel
- Charlotte MerriamJulie Hempel
- Dot FarleyWidow Paarlenburg
- Ford SterlingJacob Hoogenduck
- Frankie DarroDirk DeJong (child)
- Henry HebertWilliam Storm (as Henry Herbert)
Stills
Themes
silent filmlost film