''The Hard Way'' is a 1916 British silent

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directed by Walter West and starring

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, Joseph Tozer and Thomas H. MacDonald.BFI.org
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studios. Its plot concerns an English artist's wife who commits

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Plot summary

Cast

- Lilah Chertsey * Joseph Tozer - Noel Creighton * Thomas H. MacDonald - Arnold Graves *

Lily Saxby Lily Saxby was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Poplar, London and died in Willesden, London at age 59. Saxby married Israel Myers, a publican, in 1906 in Hackney, the marriage ended in divorce in 1917. Selected filmography * '' ...

- Clarice Creighton * George Bellamy - Lepine * Owen Francis - Martin Graves

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* 1916 films 1916 crime films British crime films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Walter West British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1910s British films {{1910s-crime-film-stub