Mr. Gilfil's Love Story is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Robert Henderson Bland, Mary Odette and Peter Upcher.[1] It was based on the short story Mr. Gilfil's Love Story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of Clerical Life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
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Mr. Gilfil's Love Story | |
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Directed by | A. V. Bramble |
Written by | George Eliot (novel) Eliot Stannard |
Starring | Robert Henderson Bland Mary Odette Peter Upcher Dora De Winton |
Production company | Ideal Film Company |
Distributed by | Ideal Film Company |
Release date | 1920 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Films directed by A. V. Bramble | |
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