It Is for England

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It Is for England
Directed byLaurence Cowen
Written byLaurence Cowen
Produced byUnion Jack Company
The Admiralty
StarringHelene Gingold
Percy Moran
Margaret Shelley
Distributed byPhillips & Carroll (UK)
Gaumont British Distributors (UK 1918, rerelease)
Release date
November 1916
Running time
10 reels(1916)
5 reels(1918 rerelease)
CountryUK
LanguageSilent..English

It Is for England is a 1916 silent film propaganda war drama written and directed by Laurence Cowen. It is also called The Hidden Hand.

Contents

It is preserved at the Library of Congress. [1]

Cast

uncredited

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References

  1. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress p.91 c.1978 by The American Film Institute