Drink (film)
# 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
