Our Newest Listing is a Movie Star (or Forget "Message in a Bottle" How About "The Seventh Day"?)

Maine has been the backdrop for a number of Hollywood movies. Who can forget such classics as "Casper the Friendly Ghost", "Graveyard Shift" and that near Oscar winner "The 12 Dogs of Christmas"? But long before Forrest Gump ran to the Marshall Point Lighthouse or Kevin Costner was moping around Shaw's Wharf with his "Message in a Bottle" there was "The Seventh Day". Not to be confused with "The Seventh Seal" (who knew a movie about a chess game could be so boring?) or even the "The Seventh Sign" (Please Demi, put a top on) but a 1922 silent movie starring Richard Barthelmess and directed by Henry King who came back to Maine 34 years later to film "Carousel" in Boothbay Harbor with Mrs. Partridge).

The Seventh Day is interesting only if you have a fondness for old wooden boats, New Harbor and John's Bay. Or if you like stories involving local folks getting mixed up in the shenanigans of rich people from away who have questionable morals and a fondness for captain's hats. But what I found really interesting about the movie was local scenery, including the fort,  the lighthouse and particularly the house in the movie at about 7:45 in.

This is the same house that Becky Brown and I have just listed in New Harbor at 8 Monument Lane. There have been some changes to the house since the 1922 movie but it is easily recognized as the same home. From the trim details above the windows to the stained glass window pattern in the double front door and the decorative moldings on the porch, much of the exterior has stayed the same. I have to admit that I have not watched all 6 of the 12 minute clips of the movie but I am working on it. The house also appears in the third clip a couple of times and because it is such a nice backdrop I am certain in the last 3 reels as well.

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