Quincy Adams Sawyer

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Clarence G. Badger. Distributed by Metro Pictures, the film is written by Bernard McConville, based on the 1900 novel Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, written by Charles Felton Pidgin. The novel had sold over 1.5 million copies at the time, and had had a successful run as a play (written by Justin Adams). (An earlier film version had been made in 1912.) Pidgin went on in later years to write two sequels to his novel due to its immense popularity.[1]

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Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922 lobby card
Directed by	Clarence G. Badger Charles Hunt (asst. dir.)
Written by	Bernard McConville (screenplay) Winifred Dunn (titles)
Based on	Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin
Produced by	Arthur H. Sawyer Herbert Lubin
Starring	John Bowers Blanche Sweet Lon Chaney Barbara La Marr
Cinematography	Rudolph J. Bergquist
Production company	Sawyer-Lubin Productions
Distributed by	Metro Pictures
Release date	Dec. 4, 1922
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The film starred Lon Chaney, Elmo Lincoln, Barbara La Marr, Blanche Sweet, Louise Fazenda and John Bowers. Parts of the 1922 film were shot along the Columbia River in Washington State, and in Del Monte, California. A still exists showing Chaney in a scene from the film.[2] The film's tagline was "Ten million people hungrily read the novel by Charles Felton Pidgin. And the photo play, of the homespun folks of old New England, is the kind everybody enjoys.".

The film was re-released in 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (after Barbara La Marr died), and is now considered a lost film.[3]