The Village Blacksmith is a 1922 American silent melodrama[5][6] film directed by John Ford and produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.

[7][8] It was loosely adapted from the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled.

The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident.

Anson steals $840 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession.