The Firm of Girdlestone (film)
Encyclopedia
The Firm of Girdlestone is a 1915 British
silent
drama film
directed by Harold M. Shaw
and starring Edna Flugrath
, Fred Groves
and Charles Rock
. It is an adaptation of the 1890 novel The Firm of Girdlestone
by Arthur Conan Doyle
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Harold M. Shaw
Harold M. Shaw
-Selected filmography:* The Land Beyond the Sunset * Lawyer Quince * The Firm of Girdlestone * Me and Me Moke * The Last Challenge * Die Rose von Rhodesia * The Pursuit of Pamela...
and starring Edna Flugrath
Edna Flugrath
Edna Flugrath was the eldest of three sisters who found fame as silent film stars.-Early life:Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 29, 1893, she was the first born of Emil and Mary Dubois Flugrath. Her father, a printer by trade, was the son of Polish-German immigrants and had at one time been...
, Fred Groves
Fred Groves (actor)
-Selected filmography:* Maria Marten * The Idol of Paris * The Loss of the Birkenhead * Florence Nightingale * The Firm of Girdlestone * The Manxman * The Labour Leader...
and Charles Rock
Charles Rock
Charles Rock was a British actor. He was born Arthur Charles Rock de Fabeck.-Selected filmography:* The Firm of Girdlestone * The Prisoner of Zenda * Rupert of Hentzau * Beau Brocade...
. It is an adaptation of the 1890 novel The Firm of Girdlestone
The Firm of Girdlestone
The Firm of Girdlestone is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890 by Chatto and Windus in London, England. In 1915 a silent film adaptation The Firm of Girdlestone was made.-Plot summary:...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
.
Cast
- Edna FlugrathEdna FlugrathEdna Flugrath was the eldest of three sisters who found fame as silent film stars.-Early life:Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 29, 1893, she was the first born of Emil and Mary Dubois Flugrath. Her father, a printer by trade, was the son of Polish-German immigrants and had at one time been...
- Kate Horston - Fred GrovesFred Groves (actor)-Selected filmography:* Maria Marten * The Idol of Paris * The Loss of the Birkenhead * Florence Nightingale * The Firm of Girdlestone * The Manxman * The Labour Leader...
- Ezra Girdlestone - Charles RockCharles RockCharles Rock was a British actor. He was born Arthur Charles Rock de Fabeck.-Selected filmography:* The Firm of Girdlestone * The Prisoner of Zenda * Rupert of Hentzau * Beau Brocade...
- John Girdlestone - Wyndham GuiseWyndham Guise-Selected filmography:* The House of Temperley * The Bosun's Mate * Trilby * She Stoops to Conquer * The Firm of Girdlestone * Sally in our Alley * Dr. Wake's Patient * Tom Jones...
- Major Clutterbuck - Hayford HobbsHayford HobbsHayford Hobbs was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in 1892. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film The Third Generation and appeared in his last film High Treason in 1929. The following year he directed his first film, a...
- Tom Dimsdale - Gwynne HerbertGwynne Herbert-Selected filmography:* The Firm of Girdlestone * Annie Laurie * The Manxman * A Fortune at Stake * Possession * The Kinsman * The Forest on the Hill * Alf's Button...
- Mrs. Scully - Mollie Terraine - Rebecca