Drink (film)

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

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

Cast

 * Fred Groves as Coupeau
 * Irene Browne as Gervaise
 * Alice O'Brien as Virginie
 * George Foley as Gouget
 * Lionel d'Aragon as Auguste Lautier
 * Arthur Walcott as Chabot
 * Joan Morgan as Gervaise, as a child
 * Stanley Arthur as Bibi
 * William Brandon as Mes-Bottes