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{{short description|1926 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Laddie
| image          = Laddie1926.jpg
| caption        = Poster
| director       = [[James Leo Meehan]]<br> '''assistant'''<br>[[Charles Kerr (screenwriter)|Charles Kerr]]
| producer       = [[Joseph P. Kennedy]]
| writer         = [[Jeanette Porter Meehan]]
| based_on       = {{basedon|''Laddie, A True Blue Story''|[[Gene Stratton Porter]]}}
| starring       = [[John Bowers (actor)]]
| cinematography = [[Allen G. Siegler]]
| editing        = [[George Hively]]
| distributor    = [[Film Booking Offices of America]]
| released       = {{Film date|1926|09|26|ref1=<ref>{{cite web | url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/1546-LADDIE?sid=5cdff433-316d-4860-9622-c225294327a4&sr=0.8563489&cp=1&pos=1 | title=Laddie: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>}}
| country        = United States
| language       = [[Silent Movie|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s)
}}
'''''Laddie''''' is a 1926 American [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film]] directed by [[James Leo Meehan]] with [[John Bowers (actor)|John Bowers]] in the title role. It was based on [[Gene Stratton-Porter]]'s novel, ''Laddie, A True Blue Story'' (1913).
== Plot ==
Laddie, son of the Stantons, an Ohio pioneer family, falls in love with Pamela Pryor, daughter of a neighboring aristocratic English family, though the Pryors adopt a condescending attitude toward the Stanton family. Through the efforts of Little Sister, who knows of Laddie's love, the two secretly communicate, and Mr. Pryor takes a liking to Laddie when he tames a wild horse for him. Meanwhile, Shelley, a Stanton girl, falls in love with city lawyer Robert Paget; when he leaves her under mysterious circumstances, she returns home heartbroken. The Pryors, disgraced because of a false accusation against their son in England, are at length forced to accept Laddie. It develops that Paget is actually the banished son of the Pryors; after a strained crisis Pryor forgives his son, and Laddie and Pamela, Robert and Shelley, and the Stantons and the Pryors are happily united.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496875/Laddie/|title=Laddie (1926) - Overview - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>
== Cast ==
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* [[John Bowers (actor)|John Bowers]] as Laddie Stanton
* [[Bess Flowers]] as Pamela Pryor
* [[Theodore Von Eltz]] as Robert Paget
* [[Eugenia Gilbert]] as Shelley Stanton
* [[David Torrence (actor)|David Torrence]] as Paul Stanton
* [[Eulalie Jensen]] as Mrs. Stanton
* [[Arthur Clayton (actor)|Arthur Clayton]] as Mahlon Pryor
* [[Fanny Midgley]] as Mrs. Pryor
* [[Aggie Herring]] as Candace
* [[Gene Stratton Porter]] as Little Sister
* [[John Fox Jr.]] as Leon
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== Production ==
The title character of ''Laddie'' is modeled after Stratton-Porter's deceased older brother, Leander, to whom she gave the nickname of Laddie. Stratton-Porter's brother drowned in the [[Wabash River]] on July 6, 1872, when he was a teenager. As in Stratton-Porter's own family, Laddie is connected with the land and identifies with Stratton-Porter's father's vocation of farming. The novel on which the film is based was published in 1913.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/genestrattonport0000long/page/45|title=Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist|author=Judith Reick Long|publisher=Indiana Historical Society|year=1990|isbn=0871950529|location=Indianapolis|pages=[https://archive.org/details/genestrattonport0000long/page/45 45]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|date=September 1996|title=Gene Stratton-Porter|url=http://www.in.gov/history/files/genestrattonporter.pdf|journal=The Indiana Historian|location=Indianapolis|publisher=Indiana Historical Bureau|pages=3–4|access-date=February 13, 2019|editor=Pamela J. Bennett}}</ref>
== Technical specifications ==
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* Sound Mix - Silent
* Color - Black and White
* Aspect Ratio - 1.33 : 1
* Film Length - 1,944.65 m (7 reels)(UK), 2,112.55 m (7 reels)(USA)
* Negative Format - 35&nbsp;mm
* Cinematographic Process - Spherical
* Printed Film Format - 35&nbsp;mm
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{IMDb title|0017051}}
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[[Category:1926 films]]
[[Category:1920s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by James Leo Meehan]]
[[Category:Film Booking Offices of America films]]
[[Category:1926 drama films]]
[[Category:Silent American drama films]]
[[Category:American silent feature films]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Gene Stratton-Porter]]
[[Category:Films based on American novels]]
[[Category:1920s American films]]