Milestones (1916 film)

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Milestones
Directed by Thomas Bentley
Written by Harry Engholm
Based on Milestones
by Arnold Bennett & Edward Knoblock
Starring Isobel Elsom
Owen Nares
Minna Grey
Production
company
G.B. Samuelson Productions
Distributed byMoss Films
Release date
  • 1916 (1916)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

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. [1] As of August 2010, the film is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films. [2]

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Plot

A young anarchist and shipbuilder refuses to listen to his conservative father.

Cast

See also

References

  1. Goble p.35
  2. "Milestones / BFI Most Wanted". BFI National Archives. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2010.