Doorsteps is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edwards, Florence Turner and Campbell Gullan. [1]
Doorsteps is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edwards, Florence Turner and Campbell Gullan. [1]
Its plot involves a boarding housemaid who befriends a playwright and helps him to evade a dangerous ex-convict on his tail. It was based on a play by Edwards, and was made as a short feature film with a running time of four reels.
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.
Florence Turner was an American actress who became known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent films.
Henry Edwards was an English actor and film director. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1952. He also directed 67 films between 1915 and 1937.
The Black Tulip is a 1937 British, black-and-white historical drama film directed by Alex Bryce and starring Patrick Waddington, Ann Soreen, Campbell Gullan and Bernard Lee. The film is based on the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. It was produced by Fox-British Pictures at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie.
The Flying Squad is a 1932 British crime film directed by F.W. Kraemer and starring Harold Huth, Carol Goodner, Henry Wilcoxon and Edward Chapman. It was based on a 1928 novel by Edgar Wallace, which was also filmed in 1929 and 1940. The screenplay was written by Bryan Edgar Wallace, based on his father's novel. The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
Milestones is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Isobel Elsom, Owen Nares and Minna Grey. It is an adaptation of the 1912 West End play Milestones by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock. Four years later an American film of the same title was released. As of August 2010, the film is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.
East Is East is a 1916 British silent film drama directed by Henry Edwards, who also starred in the film with Florence Turner. The film is an early example of the plot premise which would prove very popular in the British silent film canon: that of a character from the working-class East End of London being suddenly thrust by circumstance into the daunting milieu of West End high society.
Lily of the Alley is a 1924 British silent film drama directed by Henry Edwards, who also starred in the film with his wife Chrissie White. Lily of the Alley was filmed in 1922 and given trade showings in early 1923, but its general release to cinemas was delayed until February 1924 due to various problems within the British film industry at the time.
Campbell Gullan was a Scottish actor.
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1915 British silent drama film produced and directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Florence Turner, Henry Edwards and Malcolm Cherry. Trimble also adapted Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel for the screen. Far from the Madding Crowd is a lost film.
A Welsh Singer is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edwards, Campbell Gullan and Florence Turner. It was based on the 1896 novel of the same name by Allen Raine. The screenplay concerns a shepherd who falls in love with a girl.
Hepworth Picture Plays was a British film production company active during the silent era. Founded in 1897 by the cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth, it was based at Walton Studios west of London.
Damaged Goods is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Campbell Gullan, Marjorie Day and J. Fisher White. It was based on the 1901 play Les Avariés by Eugène Brieux. Because of the play's controversial tackling of the subject of venereal disease, the film had issues with censor boards and attracted a degree of notoriety. The film was described by one reviewer as a "masterpiece".
Mr. Pim Passes By is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by Albert Ward and starring Peggy Hyland, Campbell Gullan and Maudie Dunham. It was based on the 1919 play Mr. Pim Passes By by A.A. Milne.
My Old Dutch is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Albert Chevalier and Florence Turner. A film version of Chevalier's internationally renowned song, it was seen by millions in Great Britain during the First World War and was also a success in the United States.
Lost and Won is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Florence Turner, Henry Edwards and Edward Lingard.
Wedding Group is a 1936 British drama film directed by Alex Bryce and Campbell Gullan and starring Fay Compton, Patric Knowles and Barbara Greene. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie. The film was released in the US under the title Wrath of Jealousy.
Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American drama film directed by Donald Gallaher and Charles Klein and written by Douglas Z. Doty and Clare Kummer. The film stars Marguerite Churchill, Kenneth MacKenna, Dorothy Burgess, Campbell Gullan, Douglas Gilmore, and Henry Kolker. The film was released on July 7, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation.
Grim Justice is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Malcolm Cherry.
A Place in the Sun is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Reginald Owen, Marguerite Blanche and Malcolm Cherry. In 1919 it was released in the United States by the Triangle Film Corporation.
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