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Lady Tetley's Decree (1920)

Lady Tetley's Decree poster
Directed by
Fred Paul
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man's political career is endangered by a quarrel with his wife. The dispute is engineered by a rival from the Foreign Office.

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What happens

Lady Tetley's Decree is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Fred Paul and starring Marjorie Hume, Hamilton Stewart and Philip Hewland. Its plot follows a man whose political career is threatened due to a dispute with his wife provoked by a plot led by a Foreign Office rival of the husband. It was based on a play by Sybil Downing. The film had five reels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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