''Edge O' Beyond'' is a 1919 British silent

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directed by Fred W. Durrant and starring Ruby Miller,

Owen Nares Owen Ramsay Nares (11 August 1888 – 30 July 1943) was an English stage and film actor. Besides his acting career, he was the author of ''Myself, and Some Others'' (1925). Early life Educated at Reading School, Nares was encouraged by his mo ...

and

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. It is an adaptation of the 1908 novel '' The Edge O' Beyond'' by

Gertrude Page Gertrude Eliza Page (1872 – 1 April 1922) was an Anglo-Rhodesian novelist. Biography Educated at Bedford High School, Page wrote for ''The Girl's Own Paper'' as a teenager. Marrying George Alexander "Alec" Dobbin in 1902, she moved with him t ...

, one of her bestsellers set in

Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...

. It was shot at the

Isleworth Studios Isleworth Studios is the common name of two former film studios in Great Britain. __TOC__ Worton Hall Studios 1913–1952 Worton Hall Studios were based on Worton Hall, in Isleworth. This house was built in 1783 and rebuilt and extended in the ...

in West London. Ruby Miller had previously appeared in a West End stage version of the novel.Bamford p.35

Cast

* Ruby Miller as Dinah Webberley *

as Dr. Cecil Lawson *

as Joyce Grey *

C. M. Hallard Charles Maitland Hallard (26 October 1865 – 21 April 1942) was a Scottish actor. In 1895 he appeared in the popular drama ''Trilby (play), Trilby'' with Herbert Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket Theatre. Selected filmography * ''Convict 99 (191 ...

as Captain Burnett *

Minna Grey Minna Grey (1877 in London, England – 1935) was an English actress of the silent era. Death Grey died in 1935, 2 days before her 59th birthday. Selected filmography * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''Just a Girl'' (1916) * '' The Second Mrs. T ...

as Dulcie Maitland *

Fred Raynham Fred Raynham was a British actor of the silent era.BFI , Film & TV Database , RAYNHAM, Fred< ...

as Oswald Grant * James Lindsay as Major Egerton

References

Bibliography

* Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999. * Free, Melissa. ''Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel''. SUNY Press, 2021. * Low, Rachael. ''The History of the British Film 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

* 1919 films 1919 drama films British silent feature films British drama films Films directed by Fred W. Durrant Films set in Rhodesia Films based on British novels Films shot at Isleworth Studios 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Silent drama films {{1910s-UK-film-stub