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The Great Impostor (1918)

The Great Impostor poster
Directed by
Floyd Martin Thornton
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man pretends to be a gentleman's long-lost heir. He does this to get close to the gentleman's daughter.

silent-eradramaticperiod-pieceromanticintriguingdeceptivenostalgic

What happens

The Great Impostor is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by F. Martin Thornton and starring Marie Blanche, Bernard Dudley and Edward O'Neill. The story features a man posing as a gentleman's lost heir so he can be with the gentleman's daughter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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