Widecombe Fair (film)

Widecombe Fair
Directed by	Norman Walker
Written by	Eden Philpotts (novel) Eliot Stannard
Starring	William Freshman Marguerite Allan Wyndham Standing Violet Hopson Moore Marriott
Cinematography	Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Emile de Ruelle
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films
Release dates	December 1928
Running time	6,800 feet^[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Widecombe Fair is a 1928 British silent comedy drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring William Freshman, Marguerite Allan, Moore Marriott and Judd Green.^[2] A farmer is able to save his farm when he digs up buried treasure. The film's plot was adapted from a novel by Eden Philpotts, loosely based on the popular folk song Widecombe Fair.

Cast

William Freshman - The Lover
Marguerite Allan - The Daughter
Wyndham Standing - The Squire
Violet Hopson - The Widow
Moore Marriott - Uncle Tom Cobleigh
George Cooper - The Farmer
Aubrey Fitzgerald - The Bailiff
Eva Llewellyn - The Wife
Judd Green - The Landlord

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
Wood, Linda. British Films 1927-1939. BFI, 1986.

References

↑ Low p.479
↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58053

External links

Widecombe Fair at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Norman Walker

Tommy Atkins (1928)
Widecombe Fair (1928)
A Romance of Seville (1929)
The Hate Ship (1929)
Loose Ends (1930)
The Middle Watch (1930)
Uneasy Virtue (1931)
The Shadow Between (1931)
Mr. Bill the Conqueror (1932)
Fires of Fate (1932)
The Fortunate Fool (1933)
Forging Ahead (1933)
The Flaw (1933)
The House of Trent (1933)
The Way of Youth (1934)
Lilies of the Field (1934)
Dangerous Ground (1934)
Turn of the Tide (1935)
Key to Harmony (1935)
Debt of Honour (1936)
Our Fighting Navy (1937)
Sunset in Vienna (1940)
The Man at the Gate (1941)
Hard Steel (1942)
The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
The Promise (1952)
John Wesley (1954)
The Shield of Faith (1956)
The Supreme Secret (1958)

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