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Expiation (1922)

Expiation poster
Directed by
Sinclair Hill
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent crime film from 1922 set in Britain. It follows characters entangled in a criminal plot based on a novel.

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What happens

Expiation is a 1922 British silent crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Ivy Close, Fred Raynham and Lionelle Howard. It was based on an 1887 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film was made by Stoll Pictures at the Cricklewood Studios. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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