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George Harris : [after crossing the boarder into freedom with his family] We got no money, no food, no home, and I feel like we own the world. Sign In. TV Movie 1h 50m. Director Stan Lathan. Top credits Director Stan Lathan. See more at IMDbPro.

Photos 2. Add image. Top cast Edit. Kate Burton Ophelia as Ophelia. Bruce Dern Augustine St. Claire as Augustine St. Paula Kelly Cassy as Cassy. Phylicia Rashad Eliza as Eliza. Kathryn Walker Marie St. Claire as Marie St. George Coe Mr. The film, although it of course preceded Griffith's racist epic Birth of a Nation, has a clear and conflictual relationship with the Griffith film which could even be seen as a perverse response to it.

This film on the other hand seems pretty much like a continuation of Griffith's work. It was indeed as just such a "corrective" to Stowe's novel that Dixon had envisaged the trilogy of novels that included the Klansman on which Griffith's epic is based. And between Dixon and Griffith's portrayal of slavery as the natural order of things via this "revision" of Beecher Stowe to the retrospective and only mildly apologetic defence of slavery one finds in Gone With the Wind, there is an absolute continuum.

And as for the stereotypes - picaninnies and water melons and all the erst of it - it is appalling to behold and again one finds none of this rot in the version. The version is not a wonderful film - it is a very rushed. Here Laemmle and Pollard disgracefully cut everything out of the film that might have made it a more genuine criticism of racist America the racist America that still existed - and still exists?

A nasty element even in the original book is the way the angelic Shelby actually supports the system he supposedly rejects.

In this version Shelby's behaviour is even more grotesque than in either the book of the film - "Hello, Jim Crow - how about a little dance!!! We are on the way here to that later classic of disguised racism - To Kill a Mocking Bird - where it is not the plight of the negro that is to be pitied but that of the long-suffering "white" liberal.

There are of course rather a lot of bad eggs in the story the film can hardly change that but the conflation with the Civil War nothing to do with the novel allows the "Lincoln" card of unification to be played again very Griffith and all possible nastiness to be glazed over in a final apotheosis the US cavalry as the heavenly host where Tom's brutal murder is rather a secondary event and all focus is on the reunited family, a very white grandmother conveniently added another change from the book so that the film can come as near as dammit to suggesting that they are not really blacks at all It is a beautiful film in terms of its production but the beauty cannot make up for the racist beast that lurks throughout this film Details Edit.

Release date September 2, United States. United States. None English. Onkel Toms stuga. Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Universal Pictures. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Topics librivox , audiobook , literature , stowe , uncle tom. Read by John Greenman. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist.

The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings. He asks for your indulgence. For further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats if available , please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.

The book in itself is a wonder, but the reader who narrates adds such wonderful meaning and splendor. Truly a classic. Reviewer: Faseit - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 4, Subject: Excellent A great listening a joy that I could not wait to get to work to listen to during "quiet time" paper work and data input.

Thank you. Reviewer: xanax2 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 23, Subject: Excellent! An excellent rendition of one of my favorite books of all time! Reviewer: jtodd - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 15, Subject: Excellent This is the second best recording I've heard from Librivox.

This has not aged well. This is perhaps the best film adaption of the classic Harriet Beecher Stowe novel. A film beautifully restored with the original movietone score and one of the few surviving works of director Harry Pollard, a lesser known name in the annals of cinema history but nonetheless an innovative filmmaker. Pollard successfully captures the mood of the old pre-war South while emphasizing the horror and immorality of slavery.

James Lowe gives a fine performance in the title role, obedient yet not lacking integrity. Some characterizations may seem degrading to today's audiences, but this film was groundbreaking for its sympathy for African-Americans of the time. This film is also important in that it features a great actress of the silent period and wife of the director, Margarita Fischer. I had seen many striking photos of Ms.

Fischer in Daniel Blum's Pictorial History of the Silent Screen and was delighted to find one of her few surviving films on video.

She stars as Eliza, a fair skinned servant who eventually falls into the hands of the sinister Simon Legree, played by George Siegmann. Fischer gives a powerful performance of a young woman defying the evils of a cruel world and there is a memorable scene of her flight to freedom across the ice flows with her son.

This was this lovely actresses' swan song, for she retired prematurely after this film and lived many more years. An early appearance of Virginia Grey as Little Eva, Harry Pollard's mastery of filmmaking, and Margarita Fischer's beauty and talent all combine to make film preservation an important cause. Login Register. Loading, please wait. Quality: All p p p 3D. Year: All Select movie quality.