''The House of Peril'' 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 ...

directed by

Kenelm Foss Kenelm Foss (13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director. Early life and education He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Par ...

and starring

Fay Compton Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...

Roy Travers Roy Travers (born 1883 in London) was a British actor. Travers appeared in a number of films (mostly directed by Kenelm Foss) made by Astra Films. He died in 1941. Selected filmography * '' East Lynne'' (1913) * ''Sixty Years a Queen'' (1913) * ...

Flora le Breton Flora Le Breton (1899 – 11 July 1951 in Brooklyn, New York City) was an English silent film actress from Croydon, Surrey, England. She was a dainty blonde with dark blue eyes. In the UK she was called both ''the British Mary Pickford'' an ...

and A.B. Imeson. It is an adaptation of the 1912 novel '' The Chink in the Armour'' by

Marie Belloc Lowndes Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a li ...

and the subsequent stage play adaptation by Horace Annesley Vachell. The film follows Sylvia Bailey, a wealthy widow who travels to a French gambling resort where she encounters assorted characters.

Plot

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a German couple lure girl gamblers to a 'haunted' house and kill them for their jewels.

Cast

as Sylvia Bailey *

as Bill Chester * A.B. Imeson as Comte de Virieu *

as French Maid * Madeline Seymour as Anna Wolsky *

Wallace Bosco Wallace Charles Bosco (31 January 1880 in St Pancras, London – 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" i ...

as Polperro * Nelson Ramsey as Herr Wachner *

Irene Tripod Irene Tripod was a British actress of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Romance of Lady Hamilton'' (1919) * '' The Mystery Road'' (1921) * '' The House of Peril'' (1922) * ''Dicky Monteith'' (1922) * '' The Beloved Vagabond'' (1923) * ...

as Frau Wachner * Blanche Walker as Maid * George Bellamy as Gambler * Hubert Carter as Gambler *

Jeff Barlow Jeff Barlow was a British actor who was born in Lancashire in 1871. Selected filmography * ''Rupert of Hentzau'' (1915) * ''The Man Who Bought London'' (1916) * '' Trouble for Nothing'' (1916) * '' Love's Old Sweet Song'' (1917) * '' The Happy Wa ...

as Gambler *

Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as ''Reach for the Sky'' (1956), ''Sink the Bismarck!'' ...

as Gambler *

Tom Coventry Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

as Gambler *

Madge Tree Madge Tree (1875–1947) was a British actress of the silent era. She was born in West Derby, Liverpool and died in Paddington, London. Selected filmography * '' Hard Times'' (1915) * '' What Every Woman Knows'' (1917) * '' The Garden of Resur ...

as Gambler

References

External links

* 1922 films Films based on British novels Films based on works by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes Films directed by Kenelm Foss 1922 drama films British silent feature films Films set in France British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent British drama films English-language drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub