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The Lure of London

The Lure of London is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Ivy Close, Edward Viner and M. Gray Murray. It is based on a play of the same title by Arthur Applin.

It revolves around the lost daughter of a surgeon from London who is adopted by a "cockney drunkard"; she becomes a dancer and has an accident before being operated by her own real father.

The film was "praised for scened enacted among the hustle and bustle of the city."

Cast

  • Ivy Close as Daisy Westbury
  • Edward Viner as William Anderson
  • M. Gray Murray as Charlie Brooks
  • William Harbord as Sir John Westbury
  • Leal Douglas as Lady Westbury
  • Gwenda Wren as Olga Westbury
  • Lempriere Pringle as George Stamford
  • F.W. Trotti as Brooks - a Coster
  • M. Delarue as Mrs. Brooks

References

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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