The Thoroughbred (1916 film) explained

The Thoroughbred
Director:	Charles Bartlett
Starring:	Charlotte Burton Jack Prescott
Distributor:	Mutual Film
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent film English intertitles

The Thoroughbred is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bartlett, as his first feature length film ^[1] starring Charlotte Burton and Jack Prescott. It should not be confused with the identically titled Triangle Film production The Thoroughbred of the same year.

Cast

• Charlotte Burton as Angela Earle
• Jack Prescott as Tom Cook
• William Russell as Kelso Hamilton
• Roy Stewart as George Carewe
• Lizette Thorne as Jessie Cook
• George Fisher as Reverend Thomas Hayden

Reception

The film was commended for its action scenes ^{[2] [3]} with critic Harvey F. Thew for Motion Picture News^[4] praised both the staging and camera work in particular. However, Wid's Film and Film Folk found the directing style to be old school, lamenting the "failure of the director to use modern methods in his placing of the camera..." and found it much akin to the average melodrama films from earlier in the decade.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: AFICatalog . 2024-09-26 . catalog.afi.com.
2. Web site: Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1916) . March 1916 . New York, Chalmers Publishing Company .
3. Web site: Wid's Films and Film Folk (Jan-Dec 1916) . 1916 . New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks .
4. Web site: Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1916) . 1916 .
5. Web site: Wid's Films and Film Folk (Jan-Dec 1916) . 1916 . New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks .
6. Web site: Wid's Films and Film Folk [1916] | Media History Digital Library .