Her Greatest Performance (1916)
- Directed by
- Fred Paul
- Genre
- silent film, crime film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A mother gives a false alibi to protect her son who has been wrongly arrested for a crime. The story follows her desperate attempt to save him from punishment.
dramatictenseemotionalsuspensefulhistoricalheartfeltmaternalold-fashioned
What happens
Her Greatest Performance is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Fred Paul and starring Edith Craig, Ellen Terry and Dennis Neilson-Terry. Gerald Lovelace (Dennis Neilson-Terry) is accused of a crime and wrongly arrested, his mother (Ellen Terry) gives 'her greatest performance' when providing him with an alibi. Joan Morgan plays his daughter. Presumably this is a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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