Holy Orders (film)

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Holy Orders is a 1917 British silent romance film directed by A.E. Coleby and Arthur Rooke and starring Malvina Longfellow, Maud Yates and Arthur Rooke. [1] It was adapted from the 1908 novel Holy Orders, The Tragedy of a Quiet Life by Marie Corelli.

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  1. "Holy Orders (1917) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2016.