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The Man Who Bought London

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Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
Floyd Martin Thornton

Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Writer
  
Edgar Wallace (novel)

Release date
  
January 1916

The Man Who Bought London is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring E.J. Arundel, Evelyn Boucher and Roy Travers. It was based on the 1915 novel of the same title by Edgar Wallace. It was the first of many Wallace stories to be adapted into films. It was made at Catford Studios.

Contents

Cast

  • E.J. Arundel as King Kerry
  • Evelyn Boucher as Elsie Marion
  • Roy Travers as Hermon Zeberlieff
  • Nina Leonise as Vera Zeberlieff
  • Reginald Fox as Gordon Bray
  • Rolf Leslie as Horace Baggins
  • Jeff Barlow as James Leete
  • H. Saxon-Snell as Micheloff
  • J. Gunnis Davis as Tack
  • A.G. Gardner as Gillette
  • Helen Stewart as Mrs. Gritter

    • Bibliography

  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
  • Warren, Patricia. British Film Studios: An Illustrated History. Batsford, 2001.

    • References

    The Man Who Bought London Wikipedia
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    The Man Who Bought London IMDb