General Post

1921 film

  • Douglas Munro
  • Robert Henderson Bland
  • Lilian Braithwaite
  • Joyce Dearsley
Production
company
Ideal Film Company
Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
  • 1920 (1920)
CountryUnited KingdomLanguages
  • Silent
  • English intertitles

General Post is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Douglas Munro, Lilian Braithwaite and Joyce Dearsley.[1] It was based on the play General Post by J. E. Harold Terry in which Lillian Braithwaite had appeared when it premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in March 1917.[2]

Plot

During the First World War a small-town tailor rises to become a General.

Cast

  • Douglas Munro...Albert Smith
  • Lilian Braithwaite...Lady Broughton
  • Joyce Dearsley...Betty Broughton
  • Robert Henderson Bland...Edward Smith
  • Dawson Millward...Denys Broughton
  • Colstan Mansell...Alec Broughton
  • Teddy Arundell...Jobson
  • Sara de Groot...Miss Prendergast
  • Adelaide Grace...Lady Wareing
  • Thomas Canning...Lord Wareing
  • Irene Drew...Mary Wareing

References

  1. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | GENERAL POST #1920#". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  2. ^ Terry, J. E. Harold (1918). General Post (2nd ed.). London: Methuen & Co. p. 8. Retrieved 30 March 2017 – via archive.org.

External links

  • General Post at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • General Post at BFI Player, British Film Institute
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