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John Barleycorn

0.0 61 mins Drama   1914
W. W. Hodkinson Corporation  
Director(s): Hobart Bosworth J. Charles Haydon

Release Date: 01 Thu, Jan 1914

Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life. At age five he was instructed to bring a pail of beer to his father and drank some to prevent it spilling over, getting drunk for the first time. As an adult, he goes through cycles of abstinence only to return to hard drinking.

Casts of John Barleycorn

Elmer Clifton

as Jack, 3rd period

Antrim Short

as Jack, 2nd period

Matty Roubert

as Jack, 1st period

Viola Barry

as Haydee

Hobart Bosworth

as Scratch Nelson

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