Tommy Atkins (1915 film)

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Tommy Atkins
Directed by Bert Haldane
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Distributed byI.C.C.
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January 1915
CountryUnited Kingdom
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Tommy Atkins is a 1915 British silent war film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Blanche Forsythe, Jack Tessier and Roy Travers. It is based on an 1895 play of the same title by Ben Landeck and Arthur Shirley. [1]

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Plot

A German-born captain kills his wife and frames his fiancée, who loves a curate.

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References

  1. Goble p.425

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