The Lure of London

The Lure of London
Directed by	Bert Haldane
Written by	Arthur Applin (play) Rowland Talbot
Starring	Ivy Close Edward Viner M. Gray Murray
Production company	Barker Motion Photography
Release date	February 1914 (1914-02)
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Lure of London is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Ivy Close, Edward Viner and M. Gray Murray. It is based on a play of the same title by Arthur Applin. ^[1]

It revolves around the lost daughter of a surgeon from London who is adopted by a "cockney drunkard"; she becomes a dancer and has an accident before being operated by her own real father. ^[2]

The film was "praised for scened enacted among the hustle and bustle of the city." ^[3]

Cast

• Ivy Close as Daisy Westbury
• Edward Viner as William Anderson
• M. Gray Murray as Charlie Brooks
• William Harbord as Sir John Westbury
• Leal Douglas as Lady Westbury
• Gwenda Wren as Olga Westbury
• Lempriere Pringle as George Stamford
• F.W. Trotti as Brooks - a Coster
• M. Delarue as Mrs. Brooks

References

1. Goble p.848
2. Gifford, Denis (24 October 2018). The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-83702-2.
3. Sargeant, Amy (25 July 2019). British Cinema: A Critical and Interpretive History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-83871-476-5.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The Lure of London at IMDb