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The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915)

The Man Who Stayed at Home poster
Directed by
Cecil Hepworth
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man remains in England during wartime while others go off to fight. He becomes involved in a spy plot at a seaside boarding house.

suspensefulpatrioticdramatictenseslow-burnrestrainedtheatricalstaged

What happens

The Man Who Stayed at Home is a 1915 British silent thriller film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and starring Dennis Eadie, Violet Hopson and Alma Taylor. It is based on the play by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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