''A Sailor Tramp'' is a 1922 British
silent adventure film directed by
Floyd Martin Thornton
Floyd Martin Thornton (often credited as F. Martin Thornton, November 4, 1884 – April 1, 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director active in the United Kingdom in the 1910s and 1920s. He also directed films for the Natural Color ...
and starring
Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British boxer-turned-Hollywood actor.Obituary ''Variety'', 11 November 1959, page 79. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made sev ...
,
Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name ''Tekahionwake'' (pronounced ''dageh-eeon-wageh'', ), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centu ...
and
Hugh E. Wright. It was based on a 1902 novel by
Bart Kennedy
Bart Kennedy (1861–1930) was an English novelist, memoirist and journalist.
Biography
Kennedy was born in Leeds of Irish parents.From ''A Man Adrift'' From the age of 6 until about the age of 20 he worked in cotton mills and machine shops in ...
.
Cast
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Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British boxer-turned-Hollywood actor.Obituary ''Variety'', 11 November 1959, page 79. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made sev ...
as The Sailor Tramp
*
Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name ''Tekahionwake'' (pronounced ''dageh-eeon-wageh'', ), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centu ...
as The Girl
*
Hugh E. Wright as The Cockney
* Ambrose Manning as The Father
* Harry Worth as The Foreman
*
Bertie Wright
Albert James Matthew Wright (6 February 1871 – 7 March 1960), known as Bertie Wright, was a British actor of the silent era. Wright was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and died on 7 March 1960, in Sydney, New South Wales, Austr ...
as The Proprietor
* Kate Gurney as The Mother
* Mrs. Hubert Willis as Aunt
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
External links
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Films directed by Floyd Martin Thornton
1922 films
1922 adventure films
British adventure films
British silent feature films
1920s English-language films
Films based on British novels
British black-and-white films
1920s British films
Silent adventure films
English-language adventure films
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