Shadows of a Great City (1913)

Directed by

Frank Wilson

Genre

silent film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent crime film from 1913. It follows characters caught up in the seedy underbelly of a big city. The story is based on a stage play from 1884.

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What happens

Shadows of a Great City is a 1913 British silent crime film directed by Frank Wilson and starring Alec Worcester, Chrissie White and Harry Royston. It is an adaptation of the 1884 play The Shadows of a Great City by Herbert Blaché and Aaron Hoffman. An American film adaptation was made two years later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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