Main menu Navigation ●Main page ●Contents ●Current events ●Random article ●About Wikipedia ●Contact us ●Donate Contribute ●Help ●Learn to edit ●Community portal ●Recent changes ●Upload file

●Create account ●Log in ●Create account ● Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ●Contributions ●Talk

(Top) 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External links

Drink (film)

Add links ●Article ●Talk ●Read ●Edit ●View history Tools Actions ●Read ●Edit ●View history General ●What links here ●Related changes ●Upload file ●Special pages ●Permanent link ●Page information ●Cite this page ●Get shortened URL ●Download QR code ●Wikidata item Print/export ●Download as PDF ●Printable version Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drink
Directed by	Sidney Morgan
Written by	Sidney Morgan Charles Reade (play) Émile Zola (novel)
Produced by	Harry T. Roberts
Starring	Fred Groves Irene Browne Alice O'Brien
Production company	British Pictures
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release date	March 1917 (1917-03)
Running time	6,000 feet
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Drink is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Fred Groves, Irene Browne and Alice O'Brien.^[1] It was the film version of a play by Charles Reade, first performed in 1879 and based on Émile Zola's novel, L'Assommoir.^[2]

Plot[edit]

A laundress takes to drink and dies after her alcoholic husband goes mad.

^ Mr. Charles Warner and "Coupeau", South Australian Register (Adelaide), 23 June 1888, page 6.

Murphy, Robert. Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. British Film Institute, 2006.

The films of Sidney Morgan

This article related to a British film of the 1910s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.