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At the Villa Rose (1920 film)

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Duration
  

Language
  
Silent

4.2/10
IMDb

Director
  
Maurice Elvey

Country
  
United Kingdom

Release date
  
1920

Based on
  
At the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason

At the Villa Rose is a 1920 British silent detective film based on the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason. The feature was directed by Maurice Elvey and stars Manora Thew and Langhorn Burton. A print of the film survives at the British Film Institute archives.

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Plot

Inspector Hanaud is asked to investigate a murder in which a young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy employer in a Riviera mansion and then running away. She is innocent, but the villain is able to make her seem guilty. Hanaud uncovers the truth, that the murder was the result of a jewel robbery gone wrong.

Cast

  • Eva Westlake - Madame Dauvray
  • J.L. Boston - Besnard
  • Joan Beverley - Adele Rossignol
  • Kate Gurney - Helene
  • Manora Thew - Celia Harland
  • Teddy Arundell - Inspector Hanaud
  • Norman Page - Julius Ricardo
  • Armand Lenders - Perichet
  • Langhorn Burton - Harry Weathermill

    • Critical reception

    Allmovie wrote, "British novelist A.E.W. Mason is best known for his jingoistic adventure story {-The Four Feathers}. At the Villa Rose is a lesser but no less florid Mason work. Manora Thew stars as a phony medium, working the suckers in Monaco."

    References

    At the Villa Rose (1920 film) Wikipedia
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    At the Villa Rose (1920 film) IMDb At the Villa Rose (1920 film) themoviedb.org


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