The_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_(1935_film)

<i>The Hoosier Schoolmaster</i> (1935 film)

The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935 film)

1935 film

The Hoosier Schoolmaster is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Norman Foster, Charlotte Henry and Otis Harlan.[1] It was distributed by the independent studio Monogram Pictures. It is an adaptation of the 1871 novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston, which had previously been made into two silent films.[2]

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Plot

In the wake of the American Civil War, a former Union soldier settles in southern Indiana to become a schoolmaster. As this is largely butternut country, he receives a great deal of hostility from locals who had supported the Confederates.

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References

  1. [1]
    Fetrow p.290
  2. [2]
    Goble p.144

Bibliography

  • Considine, David M. The Cinema of Adolescence. McFarland, 1985.
  • Fetrow, Alan G. Sound films, 1927-1939: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1992.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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