''After Dark'' is a 1915 British silent

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directed by

Warwick Buckland Warwick Buckland (1863–1945) was a British stage actor. He later became a film actor and director. He directed the 1915 crime film '' After Dark''.Goble p.49 Buckland also worked as an art director, designing the sets for the epic ''Barnaby R ...

and starring Flora Morris,

Harry Royston Harry Royston was a British stage and film actor. He appeared in more than sixty short and feature films during the silent era including '' Lady Jennifer''.Goble p.506 Selected filmography * ''Oliver Twist'' (1912) * '' Adrift on Life's Tide'' ...

and

Harry Gilbey Harry Gilbey was a British actor who appeared in more than fifty films during the silent era including '' After Dark'' (1915).Goble p.49 Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * '' Kissing Cup'' (1913) * '' After Dark'' (1915) ...

.Goble p. 49 It is an adaptation of the 1868

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Plot

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's son marries a

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in order to qualify under the

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terms of a will.

Cast

* Flora Morris as Eliza Medhurst *

as Charles Dalton *

as Gordon Chumley * Beatrice Read as Rose Egerton * B.C. Robinson as Chandos Bellingham

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1915 films 1915 crime films British crime films British silent short films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Warwick Buckland British films based on plays Films set in England British black-and-white films 1910s British films {{1910s-crime-film-stub