Drink (film) explained

Drink
Director:	Sidney Morgan
Producer:	Harry T. Roberts
Studio:	British Pictures
Distributor:	Gaumont British Distributors
Runtime:	6,000 feet
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent English intertitles

Drink is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Fred Groves, Irene Browne and Alice O'Brien.^[1] It was the film version of a play by Charles Reade, first performed in 1879 and based on Émile Zola's novel, L'Assommoir.^[2]

Plot

A laundress takes to drink and dies after her alcoholic husband goes mad.

Cast

• Fred Groves as Coupeau
• Irene Browne as Gervaise
• Alice O'Brien as Virginie
• George Foley as Gouget
• Lionel d'Aragon as Auguste Lautier
• Arthur Walcott as Chabot
• Joan Morgan as Gervaise, as a child
• Stanley Arthur as Bibi
• William Brandon as Mes-Bottes

Bibliography

• Murphy, Robert. Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. British Film Institute, 2006.

Notes and References

1. Murphy p.440
2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47270874 Mr. Charles Warner and "Coupeau"