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''Sinister Street'' is a 1922 British silent
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
George Beranger George Beranger (27 March 1893 – 8 March 1973), also known as André Beranger, was an Australian silent film actor and director in Hollywood.Naturalization Records of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Centra ...
and starring John Stuart, Amy Verity and
Maudie Dunham Maudie Dunham (1902 in Doddinghurst, Essex - 1982) was a British actress. Filmography * '' The Beetle'' (1919) * ''The Winning Goal'' (1920) * ''The Ugly Duckling'' (1920) * ''Love in the Wilderness'' (1920) * ''The Night Riders'' (1920) * ''A ...
.BFI.org
/ref> It was adapted from the 1913–14 novel ''
Sinister Street ''Sinister Street'' is a 1913–1914 novel by Compton Mackenzie. It is a kind of ''Bildungsroman'' or novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which ...
'' by
Compton MacKenzie Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish independence, Scottish nation ...
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Cast

* John Stuart as Michael Fane * Amy Verity as Stella Fane *
Maudie Dunham Maudie Dunham (1902 in Doddinghurst, Essex - 1982) was a British actress. Filmography * '' The Beetle'' (1919) * ''The Winning Goal'' (1920) * ''The Ugly Duckling'' (1920) * ''Love in the Wilderness'' (1920) * ''The Night Riders'' (1920) * ''A ...
as Lily Haden *
Molly Adair Mary Marguerite Potter (24 March 1905 – 9 September 1990), known professionally as Molly Adair, was an English stage and silent screen actress. She was married to Arthur James Siggins, a policeman who later became a writer, from New Zealan ...
as Sylvia Scarlett * Charles Tilson-Chowne as Lord Saxby *
Roger Tréville Roger Tréville (17 November 1902, in Paris – 27 September 2005, in Beaumont-du-Périgord) was a French actor. He was born as Roger Troly; his parents, Georges Tréville (1875–1944) and Fanny Delisle (1881–1969), were also stage and film acto ...
as George Ayliff *
Kate Carew Mary Williams (June 27, 1869 – February 11, 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the ''New York World'', providing illustrated celebrity int ...
as Mrs. Fane * A.G. Poulton * Wilfred Fletcher * John Reid * Kathleen Blake * Marjorie Day


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* 1922 films British drama films Films based on British novels Films directed by George Beranger Ideal Film Company films British black-and-white films British silent feature films 1922 drama films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub