Foul Play (1920 film)

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Foul Play is a 1920 British silent crime film directed by Edwin J. Collins and starring Renee Kelly, Henry Hallett and Randolph McLeod. [1] It is adapted from the 1869 novel Foul Play by Charles Reade.

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In Victorian England, a clergyman is wrongly transported to Australia for a crime he did not commit.

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  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 September 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)