title: Drink (film)
text: # 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
  