Bleak House | |
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Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
Written by | William J. Elliott |
Based on | Bleak House by Charles Dickens' |
Starring | Constance Collier Berta Gellardi Helen Haye Clifford Heatherley |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Ideal Film Company |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Bleak House is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Constance Collier, Berta Gellardi, and Helen Haye.[1] An adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1853 novel of the same name, it was one of many silent-film versions of Dickens' stories.
Cast
[edit]- Constance Collier - Lady Dedlock
- Berta Gellardi - Esther Summerson
- Helen Haye - Miss Barbay
- E. Vivian Reynolds - Tulkinghorne
- Norman Page - Guppy
- Clifford Heatherley - Bucket
- Ion Swinley - Captain Hawdon
- A. Harding Steerman - Sir Leicester Dedlock
- Anthony St. John - Jo
- Teddy Arundell - George
- Beatrix Templeton - Rachel
References
[edit]- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | BLEAK HOUSE (1920)". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
External links
[edit]- Bleak House at IMDb
- Bleak House at the BFI's Screenonline