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Angel Esquire (1919)

Angel Esquire poster
Directed by
W. P. Kellino
Genre
drama film, silent film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent crime story follows detectives after a hidden treasure connected to a mysterious figure named Angel Esquire. The plot moves through clues and suspects in Edwardian England.

old-fashionedmysteriousstatelystraightforwardcrime-focusedsilent-eraplot-drivenstylized

What happens

Angel Esquire is a 1919 British silent crime film directed by W. P. Kellino and starring Aurelio Sidney, Gertrude McCoy and Dick Webb. It is based on the 1908 novel Angel Esquire by Edgar Wallace, which was later turned into a 1964 German film The Curse of the Hidden Vault. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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