The Hypocrites (1923)
- Directed by
- Charles Giblyn
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- United Kingdom, Netherlands
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A wealthy landowner pressures his son to cover up a scandal by refusing to acknowledge a village girl's baby and instead marry a woman with money. The story exposes the double standards and selfishness of those who claim to be righteous.
melodramatictensemoralisticstarkslow-burnseriousold-fashioned
What happens
The Hypocrites (Dutch: Farizeëers) is a 1923 British-Dutch silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn, based on The Hypocrites, a 1906 play by Henry Arthur Jones. The plot concerns the hypocrisy of a squire who tries to make his son deny he fathered a village girl's child, and instead marry an heiress. Jones' play which had already been filmed as The Morals of Weybury (1916) directed by George Loane Tucker with Elisabeth Risdon. The writing credit for this movie goes to Henry Arthur Jones (play) and Eliot Stannard (writer). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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