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Shadows of a Great City

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Directed by
  
Frank Wilson

Distributed by
  
Hepworth Pictures

Initial release
  
1913

Screenplay
  
Herbert Blache

Production company
  
Hepworth Pictures

Release date
  
November 1913

Director
  
Frank Wilson

Production company
  
Walton Studios

Written by
  
Herbert Blaché (play) Aaron Hoffman (play)

Starring
  
Alec Worcester Chrissie White Harry Royston

Cast
  
Chrissie White, Harry Royston, Alexander Howett Worster

Similar
  
The New York Idea, Robin Hood, Fools and Their Money, The Brat, The Saphead

Shadows of a Great City is a 1913 British silent crime film directed by Frank Wilson and starring Alec Worcester, Chrissie White and Harry Royston. It is an adaptation of the 1884 play The Shadows of a Great City by Herbert Blaché and Aaron Hoffman. An American film adaptation was made two years later.

Cast

  • Alec Worcester as Tom Cooper
  • Chrissie White as Nellie Standish
  • Harry Royston as Jim Malone
  • William Felton as Abe Nathan
  • Harry Gilbey as George Benton
  • John MacAndrews as Insp. Arkwright
  • Ruby Belasco as Biddy Malone

    • References

    Shadows of a Great City Wikipedia
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