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| Author | Joseph Hatton |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | John & Robert Maxwell (U.K.) / Harper (U.S.) |
Publication date | 1885 |
| Pages | 208 pp |
John Needham's Double is an 1885 novel and 1891 play by Joseph Hatton, and 1916 silent film.
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| Author | Joseph Hatton |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | John & Robert Maxwell (U.K.) / Harper (U.S.) |
Publication date | 1885 |
| Pages | 208 pp |
John Needham's Double is an 1885 novel and 1891 play by Joseph Hatton, and 1916 silent film.
The novel is subtitled "A Story Founded on Fact" and is based on the story of Irish financier and politician John Sadleir, who committed suicide. [1]
The Saturday Review negatively reviewed the book, calling it "simply the story of John Sadleir .. with certain highly improbable, not to say impossible, additions and corrections of Mr. Hatton's own. The story itself is neither interesting not instructive, nor yet amusing.... However, Mr. Hatton must not be taken too seriously. Lovers of cheap sensation will not be hypercritical, and will probably find John Needham's Double exciting enough." [1] Punch's review called it a shilling dreadful but was slightly more positive: "there is no room for tall writing, or mere padding, when a real good story has to be told in two hundred small pages of print large enough to defy twilight and railway-carriage lamps." [2]
Augustus Thomas modified Hatton's play for A.M. Palmer's production in New York starring Edward Smith Willard, which debuted at Palmer's Theatre in February 1891 [3] [4] [5] and played for just over a month. [6]
The cast included Willard playing the dual roles of John Needham and Joseph Norbury, Marie Burroughs as Kate Norbury, Burr McIntosh as Col. Calhoun Booker, and Royce Carleton as Mr. Grant. [7]
A silent film version directed by Lois Weber premiered in April 1916, starring Tyrone Power, Agnes Emerson, and Frank Elliott. The screenplay was by Olga Printzlau. [9] [10] [11]
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