The Mayor of Casterbridge (1921 film)

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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Directed bySidney Morgan
Based onThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
StarringFred Groves, Pauline Peters, Warwick Ward, Nell Emerald, Mavis Clair
Production
company
Sidney Morgan's Shoreham Beach studio
Release date
  • 1921 (1921)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1921 British silent film drama directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Fred Groves, Pauline Peters and Warwick Ward. [1] It was an adaptation of the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and was made with Hardy's collaboration. [2]

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The film was largely filmed in Sussex, mainly in Steyning and partly at Morgan's Shoreham Beach studio, with other scenes filmed in the Dorset town of Dorchester, [2] the actual setting of Casterbridge.

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References

  1. "The Mayor of Casterbridge (1922)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 Fisher, David (7 November 2008). "Films Made in Shoreham". Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2013.