Brigadier Gerard (film)

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Brigadier Gerard
Directed by Bert Haldane
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle (novel)
Rowland Talbot
Produced by Will Barker
Starring Lewis Waller
Madge Titheradge
A.E. George
Blanche Forsythe
Production
company
Distributed by Walturdaw (UK)
Universal Film Manufacturing Company (US)
Release date
September 1915
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Brigadier Gerard is a 1915 British silent action film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Lewis Waller, Madge Titheradge and A.E. George. [1] It is based on the 1896 short story collection The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle which follows a fictional French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

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  1. "Brigadier Gerard (1915)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2018.