''Edge O' Beyond'' is a 1919 British silent

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directed by

Fred W. Durrant Fred may refer to: People * Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French * Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico Rodr ...

and starring Ruby Miller,

Owen Nares Owen Ramsay Nares (11 August 1888 – 30 July 1943) was an English stage and film actor. Besides his acting career, he was the author of ''Myself, and Some Others'' (1925). Early life Educated at Reading School, Nares was encouraged by his mo ...

and Isobel Elsom. It is an adaptation of the 1908 novel ''

The Edge O' Beyond ''The Edge O' Beyond'' is a 1908 novel by the British writer Gertrude Page. Like a number of her works it is set in Rhodesia where she had settled. It was translated into both Czech and Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to ...

'' by Gertrude Page, one of her bestsellers set in

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. It was shot at the

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in West London. Ruby Miller had previously appeared in a

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stage version of the novel.Bamford p.35

Cast

* Ruby Miller as Dinah Webberley *

as Dr. Cecil Lawson * Isobel Elsom as Joyce Grey * C. M. Hallard as Captain Burnett *

Minna Grey Minna Grey (1877 in London, England – 1935) was an English actress of the silent era. Death Grey died in 1935, 2 days before her 59th birthday. Selected filmography * ''The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''Just a Girl'' (1916) * '' The Second Mrs. Tan ...

as Dulcie Maitland * Fred Raynham as Oswald Grant * James Lindsay as Major Egerton

References

Bibliography

* Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999. * Free, Melissa. ''Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel''. SUNY Press, 2021. * Low, Rachael. ''The History of the British Film 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

* 1919 films 1919 drama films British silent feature films British drama films Films directed by Fred W. Durrant Films set in Rhodesia Films based on British novels Films shot at Isleworth Studios 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Silent drama films {{1910s-UK-film-stub