Film · First National · 1921
Pass it on
Tol'able David
78Worth an evening.
A boy takes the mail because his people are down, and the route is the good.
The review
Someone has to drive, and the film doesn't dress that up as glory. A boy in a valley takes the mail route when his family is laid up by a bully. Richard Barthelmess, 1921, well loved and not the year's biggest. A house can watch it. The work is the route. The household is the valley. He grows up because someone has to drive. I believed that. The bully is only why they're down.
I liked this more than most of the famous silents we get, and the reason is the job, not the reputation. The boy is useful. The valley still needs the mail. If you put it on, skip the speech about becoming a man. Point at the route. A family laid up can't take the route, and he answers that with the work.
Journal
Keep Tol'able David in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 78. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Man for All Seasons
89 instead of 78
A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 78. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.
The eight
- 9Industry
The mail route is real work, and the valley needs it done.
- 9Household
His family is laid up, and the valley is the household he serves.
- 7Piety
He takes the route because they can't, conscience on a clock.
- 8Courage
He drives after a bully laid them up, instead of staying a boy.
- 8Republic
The valley is owed its mail, and he is the one who carries it.
- 6Temperance
He grows up because someone has to drive the mail route.
- 7Truth
Someone has to drive, and the boy is no longer only a boy.
- 8Stewardship
He keeps the mail moving for a valley that cannot drive.
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