Kipps is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring George K. Arthur, Edna Flugrath and Christine Rayner.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1905 novel Kipps by H.G. Wells. It was made by Stoll Pictures, the largest film company in the British Isles at the time.[2] The novel was subsequently remade into the 1941 sound film Kipps directed by Carol Reed.
Kipps | |
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Directed by | Harold M. Shaw |
Written by | Frank Miller |
Based on | Kipps by H.G. Wells |
Starring | George K. Arthur Edna Flugrath Christine Rayner |
Cinematography | Silvano Balboni |
Production company | Stoll Pictures |
Distributed by | Stoll Pictures |
Release date | January 1921 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
After losing his job in a Folkestone drapery, young Arthur Kipps inherits a considerable sum of money and has his head turned towards the well-bred Helen Walsingham and away from his childhood sweetheart Ann.
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H. G. Wells's Kipps (1905) | |
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