Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1914 American silent historical drama film directed by William Robert Daly using Vitagraph and starring Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, and Hattie Delaro. It was based upon playwright George L. Aiken's theatrical adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was produced at Fort Lee, New Jersey by the newly founded World Film studio. The film is historically notable for being the first movie with a black actor playing a leading role.
Its PR proclaimed that (unlike earlier versions) it used "real ice, real bloodhounds, real negroes, real actors, real scenes from real life as it really was in the antebellum days".
In 2012, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Cast
Sam Lucas as Uncle Tom
Walter Hitchcock as George Shelby
Hattie Delaro as Mrs. Shelby
Master Abernathy as George Shelby Jr.
Teresa Michelena as Eliza
Irving Cummings as George Harris
Paul Scardon as Haley
Marie Eline as Little Eva St. Clair
Garfield Thompson as St. Clair
Roy Applegate as Simon Legree
Boots Wall as Topsy