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The Manchester Man (film)

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Genre
  
Romance

Screenplay
  
Eliot Stannard, Banks

Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
Bert Wynne

Production companies
  
Ideal Film Company

Language
  
English


The Manchester Man 1st ed.jpg

Writer
  
Isabella Banks
,
Eliot Stannard

Release date
  
1920

Cast
  
Hubert Willis, Hayford Hobbs, Warwick Ward, Dora De Winton

Genres
  
Drama, Romance Film, Silent film

Similar movies
  
Champagne (1928), The Manxman (1929), The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Ring (1927), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

The Manchester Man is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Bert Wynne and starring Hayford Hobbs, Aileen Bagot and Joan Hestor. It was an adaptation of the 1876 novel The Manchester Man by Isabella Banks. It follows the lifetime of a Manchester resident Jabez Clegg during the turbulent 19th century.

The plot has been summarized by Denis Gifford as "Lancashire, 1800. Clerk loves merchant's daughter who elopes with crook."

Cast

  • Hayford Hobbs - Jabez Clegg
  • Aileen Bagot - Augusta Ashton
  • Joan Hestor - Bess Clegg
  • Warwick Ward - Captain Aspinall
  • A. Harding Steerman - Mr. Ashton
  • Dora De Winton - Mrs Ashton
  • Hubert Willis - Simon Clegg
  • William Burchill - Reverend Jotty Brooks
  • Charles Pelly - Kit
  • Cecil Calvert - Man of Affairs

    • References

    The Manchester Man (film) Wikipedia
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    The Manchester Man (film) IMDb