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Genre
  
Drama

Cinematography
  
Jack Okey

Country
  
United States

Director
  
James Young

Story by
  
Rudyard Kipling

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent


Release date
  
June 19, 1921 (1921-06-19)

Based on
  
Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling

Writer
  
Rudyard Kipling (screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (story), Randolph Lewis

Cast
  
Virginia Brown Faire, Nigel De Brulier

Genres
  
Drama, Silent film, Black-and-white

Similar movies
  
Rudyard Kipling wrote the story for Without Benefit of Clergy and The Jungle Book

Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Boris Karloff. It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. A print of the film still exists.

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Plot

As summarized in a review, Holden, a young English engineer in India, falls in love with the native girl Ameera, so he buys her from her mother. They live together very happily until their baby son dies. Later Ameera dies during a cholera plague.

Cast

  • Nigel De Brulier as Pir Khan
  • Virginia Brown Faire as Ameera
  • Boris Karloff as Ahmed Khan
  • Percy Marmont
  • Thomas Holding as Holden
  • Evelyn Selbie as Ameera's mother
  • Ruth Cummings as Alice Sanders (credited as Ruth Sinclair)
  • Philippe De Lacy as Tota (uncredited)
  • Otto Lederer as Aghan (uncredited)
  • E.G. Miller as Michael Devenish (uncredited)
  • Herbert Prior as Hugh Sanders (uncredited)

    • References

    Without Benefit of Clergy Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Without Benefit of Clergy IMDb


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