The Man Who Bought London (1916)
- Directed by
- Floyd Martin Thornton
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, crime film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man buys up all of London's property to gain control over the city. He clashes with authorities and criminals along the way.
old-fashioneddramaticcrime-focusedpacedplot-drivenstagedarchaicgripping-light
What happens
The Man Who Bought London is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring E.J. Arundel, Evelyn Boucher and Roy Travers. It was based on the 1915 novel The Man Who Bought London by Edgar Wallace. It was the first of many Wallace stories to be adapted into films. It was made at Catford Studios. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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