It Is for England

It Is for England
Directed byLaurence Cowen
Written byLaurence Cowen
Produced byUnion Jack Company
The Admiralty
StarringHelene Gingold
Percy Moran
Margaret Shelley
Distributed byPhillips & Carroll (UK)
Gaumont British Distributors (UK 1918, rerelease)
Release date
November 1916
Running time
10 reels(1916)
5 reels(1918 rerelease)
CountryUK
LanguageSilent..English

It Is for England is a 1916 silent film propaganda war drama written and directed by Laurence Cowen. It is also called The Hidden Hand.

It is preserved at the Library of Congress.[1]

Cast

  • Helene Gingold - Reverend Christian St. George
  • Percy Moran - Lt. Stephen English RN
  • Margaret Shelley - Mary Marshall
  • Thomas Canning - John Marshall MP
  • R. Courtland - Percy Marshall
  • Lionel d'Aragon - Sir Charles Rosenbaum Bart MP
  • Gilbert Parker - Himself (*as Sir Gilbert Parker)
  • Leonard Shepherd - The Kaiser
  • Roy Travers - The Kaiser's Foreign Secretary

References

  1. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress p.91 c.1978 by The American Film Institute

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