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.


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lure_of_London
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