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comes out so well." By 1920 Hardy had changed his opinion, saying that it "seems to have been a failure". No boxoffice records are available to determine the film's financial success. Turner Films ceased production after
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of the novel and that the farm, the cattle, the sheep are the genuine ones over which
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review, which criticized the narrative as hard to follow and deemed the 30-year-old Turner as "no longer qualified physically to portray the roles of the simple ingenue type". The reviewer concluded, "
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