Desperate Youth Explained

Desperate Youth
Director:	Harry B. Harris
Producer:	Carl Laemmle
Based On:	A Kentucky Cinderella by F. Hopkinson Smith
Starring:	Gladys Walton J. Farrell MacDonald Louis Willoughby
Cinematography:	Earl M. Ellis
Studio:	Universal Pictures
Distributor:	Universal Pictures
Runtime:	50 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles

Desperate Youth is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Harry B. Harris and starring Gladys Walton, J. Farrell MacDonald and Louis Willoughby.^[1]

Cast

• Gladys Walton as Rosemary Merridew
• J. Farrell MacDonald as 'Mendocino' Bill
• Louis Willoughby as 'Alabam' Spencer Merridew / Henry Merridew
• Muriel Godfrey Turner as Mrs. Merridew
• Hazel Howell as Pauline Merridew
• Harold Miller as Dr. Tom Dowling
• Lucretia Harris as Aunt Chlordiny
• Jim Blackwell as Sam

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Munden p.182