''Through Fire and Water'' 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
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley (23 February 1884 – 23 December 1966) was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, ''The Man in the Street'' (1926), '' ...
and starring
Clive Brook
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.
After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States ...
,
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
.
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/ref> It was based on the 1922 novel '' Greensea Island'' by Victor Bridges
Victor Bridges (real name Victor George de Freyne, 14 March 1878 – 29 November 1972) was a prolific English author of detective and fantasy fiction, and also a playwright and occasional poet.
Life
Born on 14 March 1878 at Clifton, Bristol, Vic ...
.
Cast
* Clive Brook
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.
After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States ...
as John Dryden
* 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 ...
as Christine de Rhoda
* as Dr. Manning
* Jerrold Robertshaw
Jerrold Robertshaw (28 March 1866, in Allerton, West Riding of Yorkshire – 14 February 1941, in London) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era.
Selected filmography
* ''Dombey and Son'' (1917)
* ''Build Thy House'' (1920)
* ...
as Jennaway
* M. A. Wetherell as Craill
* Teddy Arundell
Teddy Arundell (1873 in Devon – 5 November 1922, in London) was a British film actor of the silent era.
Selected filmography
* ''The Lyons Mail'' (1916)
* ''Justice'' (1917)
* ''Nelson'' (1918)
* '' The Swindler'' (1918)
* '' The Splendid Cow ...
as Bascomb
* Esme Hubbard
Esme Hubbard (1880 – 12 April 1951) was a British actress of the silent era.
She was born Esme Woodbine Hubbard to British parents in Russia and died in Ealing, London in 1951 at age 71.
Select filmography
* '' Caste'' (1915)
* '' His Deares ...
as Mrs. Craill
* Ian Wilson as Jimmy
References
External links
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1923 films
British adventure films
British silent feature films
1920s English-language films
Films directed by Thomas Bentley
1923 adventure films
Films based on British novels
Ideal Film Company films
British black-and-white films
Silent adventure films
1920s British films
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