Milestones (1920 film)

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Milestones
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Still from the film
Directed by Paul Scardon
Written by Louis Sherwin
Based on Milestones
by Arnold Bennett & Edward Knoblock
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn
Starring Lewis Stone
Alice Hollister
Gertrude Robinson
Cinematography Otto Brautigan
Production
company
Distributed byGoldwyn Distributing
Release date
  • September 9, 1920 (1920-09-09)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Milestones is a 1920 American silent historical drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Lewis Stone, Alice Hollister, and Gertrude Robinson. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1912 West End play Milestones by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock. [2] It is a saga of a British upper-class family from the 1860s to the present.

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Preservation

With no copies of Milestones located in any film archives, [3] it is a lost film.

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