The House of Marney is a 1927 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, John Longden and James Carew. [1] It was based on a novel by John Goodwin (a pseudonym for Sydney Gowing), which was in turn based on a serial called "Dave the Barge-Boy", originally written by the author for the story paper The Boys' Realm in 1906. [2]