''The Fair Maid of Perth'' is a 1923 British
silent adventure film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...
directed by
Edwin Greenwood
Edwin Greenwood (1895–1939) was a British screenwriter, novelist and film director.
Selected filmography
Director
* '' The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1923)
* '' Heartstrings'' (1923)
* ''The Bells'' (1923) 20-minute silent film made as part of the ...
and starring
Russell Thorndike
Arthur Russell Thorndike (6 February 1885 – 7 November 1972) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels. Less well-known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile, Russell Thorndike's first love ...
,
Sylvia Caine and
Lionel d'Aragon
Lionel d'Aragon (5 July 1863 - 1941) was a British actor of the silent era. He was born in Paris, France and died in Camberwell, London.
Selected filmography
* '' Heroes of the Mine'' (1913)
* '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916)
* ''The Valley of Fear' ...
. It was made at
Beaconsfield Studios
Beaconsfield Film Studios is a British television and film studio in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. The studios were operational as a production site for films in 1922, and continued producing films - and, later, TV shows - until the 1960s. Bri ...
, and based on the 1828 novel ''
The Fair Maid of Perth
''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (or ''St. Valentine's Day'') is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth (known at the ti ...
'' by Sir
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', ''Rob Roy (n ...
.
[Low p.174]
Cast
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Russell Thorndike
Arthur Russell Thorndike (6 February 1885 – 7 November 1972) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels. Less well-known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile, Russell Thorndike's first love ...
as Dwining
*
Sylvia Caine as Catherine
*
Lionel d'Aragon
Lionel d'Aragon (5 July 1863 - 1941) was a British actor of the silent era. He was born in Paris, France and died in Camberwell, London.
Selected filmography
* '' Heroes of the Mine'' (1913)
* '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916)
* ''The Valley of Fear' ...
as Black Douglas
*
Tristan Rawson
Capel Tristan Rawson (20 January 1888 – 20 May 1974), known professionally as Tristan Rawson, was an English actor
After an early career as an opera singer in Germany, he took up amateur dramatics in Switzerland during the First World War and ...
as Harry Gow
*
Charles Barratt
*
Lionelle Howard
*
Donald Macardle
*
Sidney Paxton
*
Wallace Bosco
Wallace Charles Bosco (31 January 1880 in St Pancras, London – 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film actor and screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer ...
*
Jack Denton
John Fleming St. Andrew Denton (11 September 1872 – 19 April 1949) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.
Denton was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire and died at age 76 in Redhill, Surrey.
Selected filmography
Ac ...
*
Leal Douglas
Leal Douglas (born Lilly Elizabeth Annie Lamb; 25 March 1881 – 3 February 1970) was a British-Australian actress, mainly of the silent film era.
Of Scottish and English parents, Douglas emigrated to Australia as a child and began her stag ...
*
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References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
1923 films
1920s historical adventure films
British historical adventure films
British silent feature films
Films set in Scotland
Films set in the 15th century
Films shot at Beaconsfield Studios
Films directed by Edwin Greenwood
Films based on works by Walter Scott
Films based on British novels
British black-and-white films
1920s English-language films
1920s British films
Silent adventure films
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