The Town That Forgot God (1922)

8.0/10 90 min Drama Romance

Overview

A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at losing her, goes away, and he returns years later to find that David, now an orphan, is running away from his cruel foster father, the squire. Eben befriends David, and when the town is destroyed by a storm the two escape harm. An epilog shows David 25 years later as a successful businessman, happily married, helping to rebuild the town.

Cast

Warren William

Eben

Jane Thomas

Betty Biggs

Harry Benham

Harry Adams

Raymond Bloomer

David, as a man

Nora Cecil

(uncredited)

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