''Claude Duval'' is a 1924 British silent adventure film directed by George A. Cooper and starring

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Claude Duval Claude Du Vall (or Duval) (164321 January 1670) was a French highwayman in Restoration England. He came from a family of decayed nobility, and worked in the service of exiled royalists who returned to England under King Charles II. Little els ...

Plot

In the seventeenth century a young Frenchman arrives in Britain and becomes mixed up in intrigue and ends up as a

highwaymen A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted highwaymen were widely considered to be socially superior to fo ...

Cast

as Claude Duval *

as Duchess Frances *

as Lord Lionel Malyn * A.B. Imeson as Lord Chesterton * Dorinea Shirley - Moll Crisp * James Knight as Captain Craddock * James Lindsay as Duke of Brentleigh * Betty Faire as Lady Anne * Charles Ashton as Tom Crisp *

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as Mr Crisp * Stella St. Audrie as Mrs Crisp

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1924 films British historical adventure films British silent feature films 1920s historical adventure films Films directed by George A. Cooper Gainsborough Pictures films Films shot at Lime Grove Studios Films set in England Films set in the 1660s Films set in the 1670s British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent historical adventure films {{adventure-film-stub