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Dick Turpin's Ride to York

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Directed by
  
Maurice Elvey

Running time
  
80 minutes

Initial release
  
1922

Written by
  
Leslie Howard Gordon

Release date
  
1922 (1922)

Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
Maurice Elvey

Distributed by
  
Stoll Pictures

Starring
  
Matheson LangIsobel ElsomCecil Humphreys

Language
  
Silent filmEnglish intertitles

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Dick Turpin's Ride to York is a 1922 British historical silent film drama directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Isobel Elsom and Cecil Humphreys. It was the first feature-length film of the story of the famous 18th-century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary 200-mile overnight ride from London to York on his mount Black Bess.

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Dick Turpin's Ride to York was for many years assumed by film historians to be completely lost. However two reels of the film were among several rediscoveries in a private collection in the United States in 2003.

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Cast

  • Matheson Lang as Dick Turpin
  • Isobel Elsom as Esther Bevis
  • Cecil Humphreys as Lytton Glover
  • Norman Page as Ferret Bevis
  • Lewis Gilbert as Tom King
  • Lily Iris as Sally Dutton
  • Malcolm Todd as Sir Charles Weston
  • Madame d'Esterre as Lady Weston

    • References

    Dick Turpin's Ride to York Wikipedia
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