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The Celestial City (1929)

The Celestial City poster
Directed by
J. O. C. Orton
Genre
drama film, silent film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime drama set in Britain. It follows characters involved in a criminal plot based on a story by Emma Orczy.

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What happens

The Celestial City is a 1929 British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton and starring Norah Baring, Cecil Fearnley and Lewis Dayton. The film was made at Welwyn Studios by British Instructional Films, and based on the 1926 The Celestial City by Emma Orczy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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