Monty Works the Wires

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Monty Works the Wires
Directed by Manning Haynes
Written byManning Haynes
Lydia Hayward
Produced by George Redman
StarringManning Haynes
Mildred Evelyn
Eva Westlake
Production
company
Artistic Pictures
Distributed byArtistic Pictures
Release date
June 1921
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Monty Works the Wires is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by Manning Haynes and Challis Sanderson and starring Haynes, Mildred Evelyn and Eva Westlake. [1]

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  1. Murphy p.284

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