Comin' Thro the Rye (film)

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Comin' Thro the Rye
Directed by Cecil Hepworth
Written byBlanche McIntosh
Based on Comin' Through the Rye
1875 novel
by Helen Mathers
Produced by Hepworth Picture Plays
Starring Alma Taylor
Ralph Forbes
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Production
company
Release date
1923
Running time
115 mins
Country United Kingdom
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Comin' Thro the Rye is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor and Ralph Forbes. The film was based on the 1875 novel of the same name by Helen Mathers. The title alludes to the Robert Burns 1782 poem "Comin' Through the Rye".

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A clip of it is seen in the comedy The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), in which the elderly staff of the old fleapit cinema tearfully watch silent films on their evenings off. [1]

Plot

The story of a young girl who is prevented from marrying the man she loves by the machinations of a designing woman. The plot centres on the heroine, Helen Adair, who is courted by George Tempest but who meets and falls in love with Paul Vasher. Vasher's former love Sylvia Fleming who has betrayed him, is jealous of his affections for Helen and manages by intercepting mail between the lovers to plot to win him back.

While Vasher is abroad she places a false announcement of the marriage of Helen and George in the Times and in his despair at this news he agrees to marry her. Sylvia is trapped in a loveless marriage, Helen retains her virtue, Vasher never forgets his love for Helen and in a final letter from the battlefield writes to his true love telling her he will meet her 'Comin' through the rye'.

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References

  1. "Film & TV Locations - 'Came The Dawn'". www.south-central-media.co.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2018.