''Afraid of Love'' is a 1925 British

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directed by Reginald West and starring Leslie Faber,

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and

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. A review in '' The Kinematograph Weekly'' in 1925 says that the plot involves a married man seducing a working-class young woman. At the end of the film the married man commits suicide, his wife marries an old friend and the young woman goes back to her mother. The reviewer writes that the acting is good, the direction "intensely theatrical" and that "The curiosity value of this picture is obvious and exceptional, and it can be played to good business almost anywhere".

Cast

* Leslie Faber as Anthony Bond *

as Philip Bryce *

as Father *

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as Mother *

Mickey Brantford Mickey Brantford (26 March 1911 – 18 October 1984) was an English actor and film production manager . Mickey Brantford was born Michael Richard Henry Comerford into a theatrical family, in London. He began his career in the silent film era as ...

as Tony Bond *

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as Ruth

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* 1925 films British drama films 1920s English-language films British black-and-white films British silent feature films 1925 drama films 1920s British films Silent drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub