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Vanity Fair (1922)

Vanity Fair poster
Directed by
Walter Courtney Rowden
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
18 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent film adaptation of Thackeray's novel. It follows the social climb and struggles of a young woman in 19th century England.

slow-pacedmelodramaticperiod-settingrestrainedsomberobservational

What happens

Vanity Fair is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden and starring Clive Brook, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew and Douglas Munro. An adaptation of the 1848 novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, it was made as part of the "Tense Moments with Great Authors Series" of films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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