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Castles in Spain (1920)

Castles in Spain poster
Directed by
Horace Lisle Lucoque
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
55 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man moves to a quiet country village and falls for a woman. His nephew also loves her, creating a gentle romantic conflict.

quietromanticbittersweetslow-pacedold-fashionedsentimentalunderstated

What happens

Castles in Spain is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Horace Lisle Lucoque and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Lilian Braithwaite and Hayford Hobbs. It was based on the 1912 novel Castles in Spain by Ruby M. Ayres. It was made at Kew Studios in London. A man retires to a country village, where he meets the woman of his dreams. However, he soon discovers that his nephew has also fallen in love with her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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