''Foul Play'' is a 1920 British silent

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by Edwin J. Collins and starring

Renee Kelly Renee Kelly (4 June 1888 – 28 August 1965) was an English stage and film actress. Kelly was born in London but her family moved to New York during her childhood. She won awards for elocution at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. When Kelly ...

Henry Hallett Henry Hallett (1 February 1888 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK – 24 July 1952) was a British stage and film actor. Filmography * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1932) * '' Jew Süss'' (1934) * ''Tudor Rose'' (1936) * ''Spy of Napole ...

and Randolph McLeod. It is adapted from the 1869 novel '' Foul Play'' by

Charles Reade Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for '' The Cloister and the Hearth''. Life Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at leas ...

Plot

In Victorian England, a clergyman is wrongly transported to Australia for a crime he did not commit.

Cast

... Helen Rollaston *

... Penfold * Randolph McLeod ... Wardlow *

Cecil Morton York Cecil Morton York (29 April 1857 – 23 February 1935) was a British actor of the silent era. Born Cecil Morton Smith in Kensington, West London, UK, he died at age 77 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London. Selected filmography * '' Flying fro ...

... Mr. Wardlow *

C. Hargrave Mansell C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies * Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...

... Reverend Penfold *

Charles Vane Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born in the Kingdom of England around 1680. One of his first pirate ventures was under the l ...

... General Rollaston * N. Watt-Phillips ... Joseph Wylie

References

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* 1920 films British crime films Films directed by Edwin J. Collins Films based on British novels British black-and-white films British silent feature films 1920 crime films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films {{1920s-UK-film-stub