Tolable David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tolable David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence Young David Kinemon is a goodnatured easygoing lad in a mountain village Circumstances force him to take his brothers place as mailman for the community and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers