''Mysteries of London'' is a 1915 British silent

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directed by

A. E. Coleby Albert Ernest Coleby (1876 – 15 July 1930) was a British film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era. Selected filmography Director * ''Peg Woffington'' (1912) * '' Mysteries of London'' (1915) * '' The Lure of Drink'' (1915) * ''K ...

and starring Wingold Lawrence and

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.Palmer p.886 The film may have taken its inspiration from the Victorian penny dreadful ''

The Mysteries of London ''The Mysteries of London'' is a "penny blood" or city mysteries novel begun by George W. M. Reynolds in 1844. Recent scholarship has uncovered that it "was almost certainly the most widely read single work of fiction in mid-nineteenth century Br ...

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Synopsis

A clerk is framed for a crime, but is freed in time to save his daughter from being murder for her inheritance.

Cast

* Wingold Lawrence as Bob Willis *

as Louise Willis

References

Bibliography

* Palmer, Scott. ''British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987''. McFarland, 1988.

External links

* 1915 films Films set in London 1915 crime films British crime films British silent feature films Films directed by A. E. Coleby British black-and-white films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films {{1910s-UK-film-stub