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Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921)

Ten Nights in a Bar Room poster
Directed by
Oscar Apfel
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent film follows the destructive path of a man who becomes addicted to alcohol. It shows the harm his drinking causes to his family and the people in his small town.

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What happens

Ten Nights in a Bar Room is a 1921 American silent melodrama film directed by Oscar Apfel. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Timothy Shay Arthur, and the 1858 stage adaptation of that novel by William W. Pratt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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