It Is for England

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Directed by Laurence Cowen Release date November 1916 Screenplay Laurence Cowen		Written by Laurence Cowen Director Laurence Cowen Producer Laurence Cowen
Produced by Union Jack Company The Admiralty Starring Helene Gingold Percy Moran Margaret Shelley Distributed by Phillips & Carroll (UK) Gaumont British Distributors (UK 1918, rerelease) Initial release November 1916 (United Kingdom) Cast Margaret Shelley, Helene Gingold, Percy Moran Similar American Aristocracy, A Daughter of the Gods, Pierre of the Plains, The Lane That Had No Turning, Behold My Wife!

It Is for England is a 1916 silent film propaganda war drama written and directed by Laurence Cowen. It is also called The Hidden Hand.

It is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Cast

Helene Gingold - Reverend Christian St. George

Percy Moran - Lt. Stephen English RN

Margaret Shelley - Mary Marshall

uncredited

Thomas Canning - John Marshall MP

R. Courtland - Percy Marshall

Lionel d'Aragon - Sir Charles Rosenbaum Bart MP

Gilbert Parker - Himself (*as Sir Gilbert Parker)

Leonard Shepherd - The Kaiser

Roy Travers - The Kaiser's Foreign Secretary

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