Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

1920 film

  • 1920 (1920)
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Mr. Gilfil's Love Story is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Robert Henderson Bland, Mary Odette and Peter Upcher.[1] It was based on the short story Mr. Gilfil's Love Story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of Clerical Life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later, leaving him in a state of grief.

Cast

  • Robert Henderson Bland - Maynard Gilfil
  • Mary Odette - Caterina
  • Peter Upcher - Anthony Wybrow
  • Dora De Winton - Lady Clevere
  • A. Harding Steerman - Sir Christopher Chever
  • Aileen Bagot - Beatrice Asscher
  • Norma Whalley - Lady Asscher
  • John Boella - Signor Sarti
  • Irene Drew - Dorcas
  • Robert Clifton - Knott

References

  1. ^ BFI.org
  • Mr. Gilfil's Love Story at IMDb
  • "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" free PDF of Blackwood's 1878 Cabinet Edition (the critical standard with Eliot's final corrections) at the George Eliot Archive
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Films directed by A. V. Bramble
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  • When Paris Sleeps (1917)
  • Profit and the Loss (1917)
  • The Laughing Cavalier (1917)
  • Bonnie Mary (1918)
  • The Single Man (1919)
  • Her Cross (1919)
  • A Smart Set (1919)
  • Heart and Soul (1919)
  • Wuthering Heights (1920)
  • Torn Sails (1920)
  • Mr. Gilfil's Love Story (1920)
  • Her Benny (1920)
  • The Will (1921)
  • The Rotters (1921)
  • The Prince and the Beggarmaid (1921)
  • The Old Country (1921)
  • The Bachelor's Club (1921)
  • The Little Mother (1922 film) (1922)
  • Shirley (1922)
  • The Card (1922)
  • Zeebrugge (1924)
  • Bodiam Castle and Eric the Slender (1926)
  • Shooting Stars (1927)
  • The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
  • Chick (1928)
  • A Lucky Sweep (1932)
  • Mrs. Dane's Defence (1933)
  • The Veteran of Waterloo (1933)


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