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Down Upon the Suwanee River (1925)

Down Upon the Suwanee River poster
Directed by
Lem F. Kennedy
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman fall in love in the American South. Their relationship faces obstacles from family and social pressures.

silent-eraromanticnostalgicslow-pacedsentimentalold-fashionedmelodramatic

What happens

Down Upon the Suwanee River is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Lem F. Kennedy and starring Charles Emmett Mack, Mary Thurman, and Arthur Donaldson. The spelling of the film's title, which is from the first line of the Stephen Foster song "Old Folks at Home", varied with both Swanee and Suwannee used. In Britain it was released by Wardour Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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