When Bearcat Went Dry - Prohibition Era Silent Film Pinback
Back, The Whitehead & Hoag Co. Newark NJ. Per Wikipedia, When Bearcat Went Dry is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Oliver L. Sellers from the novel by Charles Neville Buck, and starring Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers. The title refers to a character nicknamed Bearcat - Bernard J. Durning - who promises his girlfriend that he will quit drinking liquor. The plot involving a promise to give up drinking was timely given the passage of the Wartime Prohibition Act, which took effect on June 30, 1919, and banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in January of the same year. The film was re-issed in 1928. About 3/4 inches diameter x 1/8 D inches
Measurement: 0.75 x 0.125 x 0.75 IN
Weight: 0.01 LB
Number of units In lot: 1
Condition Report:
Excellent
Back, The Whitehead & Hoag Co. Newark NJ. Per Wikipedia, When Bearcat Went Dry is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Oliver L. Sellers from the novel by Charles Neville Buck, and starring Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers. The title refers to a character nicknamed Bearcat - Bernard J. Durning - who promises his girlfriend that he will quit drinking liquor. The plot involving a promise to give up drinking was timely given the passage of the Wartime Prohibition Act, which took effect on June 30, 1919, and banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in January of the same year. The film was re-issed in 1928. About 3/4 inches diameter x 1/8 D inches
Measurement: 0.75 x 0.125 x 0.75 IN
Weight: 0.01 LB
Number of units In lot: 1
Condition Report:
Excellent
