David Harum; A Story of American Life is a best-selling novel of 1898 by Edward Noyes Westcott. Written by retired Syracuse, New York banker Edward Noyes Westcott, the work was rejected by six publishers before being accepted for publication by D. Appleton & Company. Published in the fall of 1898, some six months after the author's death, it sold an impressive 400,000 copies during the following year. Although the book contains the mandatory love story, the character and philosophy of the title character, small town banker and horse trader David Harum, expressed in the dialect of 19th-century rural central New York is the focus of the book.
Adaptations (2)
David Harum has been adapted into 2 films, from 1916 to 1934.
David Harum1934 · film · 83 min · dir. James Cruze · IMDb ↗IMDb6.6Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
