''Quinneys'' is a 1919 British silent

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directed by

Herbert Brenon Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through the 1930s. Brenon was among the early film ...

Maurice Elvey Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was one of the most prolific film directors in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He a ...

, and Rex Wilson and stars

Henry Ainley Henry Hinchliffe Ainley (21 August 1879 – 31 October 1945) was an English actor. Life and career Early years Ainley was born in Morley, near Leeds, on 21 August 1879, the only son and eldest child of Richard Ainley (1851–1919), a textile ...

Isobel Elsom Isobel Elsom (born Isabelle Reed; 16 March 1893 – 12 January 1981) was an English film, theatre, and television actress. She was often cast as aristocrats or upper-class women. Early years Born in Chesterton, Cambridge, Chesterton, C ...

and Eric Harrison. It is an adaptation of the play '' Quinneys'' by Horace Annesley Vachell which was again made into a film in 1927. A reported £100,000 worth of

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were used for the film.Bamford p.10

Plot

An antique dealer's daughter loves a foreman who sells fakes to his ex-partner.

Cast

as Joseph Quinney *

as Posy Quinney * Eric Harrison as James Miggott * Tom Reynolds as Sam Tomlin *

Roland Pertwee Roland Pertwee (15 May 1885 – 26 April 1963) was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of ''Doctor Who'' actor Jon Pertwee and playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee. He was al ...

as Cyrus Hunsucker * Marie Wright as Mabel Dredge

References

Bibliography

* Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted Images: British National Identity and Film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999.

External links

* 1919 films British silent feature films 1910s romance films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Rex Wilson British black-and-white films British romance films 1910s British films {{1910s-romance-film-stub