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The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1918)

The Ticket-of-Leave Man poster
Directed by
Bert Haldane
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man released from prison tries to build a new life but is followed by suspicion and trouble. The film is based on a stage play from the 1860s.

old-fashionedtheatricalmelodramaticslow-pacedplot-drivennostalgicseriousdramatic

What happens

The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a 1918 British silent crime film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Daphne Glenne, George Foley and Aubrey Fitzmaurice. It is an adaptation of the 1863 melodrama The Ticket-of-Leave Man by Tom Taylor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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