''Dicky Monteith'' is a 1922 British silent

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directed by

Kenelm Foss Kenelm Foss (13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director. Early life and education He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Par ...

and starring

Stewart Rome Stewart Rome (born Septimus William Ryott; 30 January 1886 – 26 February 1965) was an English actor who appeared in more than 150 films between 1913 and 1950. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1886 and took the stage name of Stewart Rome ...

, Joan Morgan and

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/ref> Its plot involves a lawyer who tries to con a drunken client out of a large sum of money. It is an adaptation of a play by Tom Gallon and Leon M. Lion.

Cast

as Dicky Monteith * Joan Morgan as Sally/Dorothy Weston * Jack Minister as Vincent Hepburn * Douglas Munro as– Mayor * Nelson Ramsey as Barty * Jack Frost as Ginger *

Gertrude Sterroll Gertrude Sterroll was a British stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' Bars of Iron'' (1920) * '' The Shadow Between'' (1920) * '' Dicky Monteith'' (1922) * '' Potter's Clay'' (1922) * '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922) * ''The Wine o ...

as– Miss Tillotson * David Hallett as Gilbert Collingwood * James English as Sydney Carton * Fay Segel as Lucy Manette *

A.B. Imeson A.B. Imeson (1875 – 28 February 1944) was an English stage and film actor. Filmography His first role was playing Satan in the silent film ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1916). * ''Disraeli'' (1916) * ''Ave Maria'' (1918) * '' The Bree ...

as Charles Darnay *

Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as '' Reach for the Sky'' (1956), '' Sink the Bismarck! ...

as Defarge * Irene Tripod as Madame Defarge *

as Charles Dickens

References

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* 1922 films 1922 drama films British films based on plays Films directed by Kenelm Foss British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent British drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub