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The Years of the Locust
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by George H. Melford (George Melford)

Cast: Fannie Ward [Lorraine Roth], Walter Long [Aaron Roth], Jack Dean [Dirck Mead], H.M. Best [Williams, Roth’s secretary], Charles Ogle [McKenzie, Mead’s mine manager]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Beatrice de Mille and Leighton Osmun, from the adaptation by Harvey F. Thew of the short story “The Years of the Locust” by Albert Payson Terhune. Assistant director, C.H. Mitchell. Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 3 November 1916 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LP9456]. Released 16 November 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 March 2011.

References: Website-AFI.