Sowing the Wind is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Anita Stewart, James Morrison, and Myrtle Stedman. It is an adaptation of the British play Sowing the Wind by Sydney Grundy which had previously been turned into a 1916 film of the same title.[1]

Sowing the Wind
Still from the film
Directed by	John M. Stahl
Written by	Franklin Hall
Based on	Sowing the Wind by Sydney Grundy
Produced by	Anita Stewart Louis B. Mayer
Starring	Anita Stewart James Morrison Myrtle Stedman
Cinematography	René Guissart
Production companies	Anita Stewart Productions Louis B. Mayer Productions
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	April 1921 (1921-04)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cast

• Anita Stewart as Rosamund Athelstane
• James Morrison as Ned Brabazon
• Myrtle Stedman as Baby Brabant
• Ralph Lewis as Brabazon
• William V. Mong as Watkins
• Josef Swickard as Petworth
• Ben Deeley as Cursitor
• Harry Northrup
• Margaret Landis
• William Clifford

Preservation

Copies of Sowing the Wind are in the UCLA Film and Television Archive and George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.[2]

References

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sowing the Wind (1921 film).

• Sowing the Wind at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie

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