The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921)

192159mdir. Joe De GrasseUnited Statessilent film

With Charles Ray, Laura La Plante, Lincoln Stedman

Directed by Joe De Grasse

The Old Swimmin' Hole still

The Old Swimmin' Hole is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Joe De Grasse based on the poem The Old Swimmin' Hole by James Whitcomb Riley. A reviewer for Exhibitors Herald summarized, "The theme of the picture is a light one—just the pleasant little love story of a country schoolboy and girl in the era of the youth of Tom Sawyer."

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