''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' is a 1921 British silent film drama directed by

Sidney Morgan Sidney Morgan (2 August 1874 – 11 June 1946) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, producer and actor. He directed 45 films between 1914 and 1937. As an actor, he appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock film ''Juno and the P ...

and starring Fred Groves, Pauline Peters and Warwick Ward. It was an adaptation of the 1886 novel ''

The Mayor of Casterbridge ''The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character'' is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing ...

'' by

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry ...

and was made with Hardy's collaboration. The film was largely filmed in

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

, mainly in

Steyning Steyning ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham District, Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, north of the coastal town of Shoreha ...

and partly at Morgan's Shoreham Beach studio, with other scenes filmed in the

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

town of Dorchester, the actual setting of ''Casterbridge''.

Partial cast

* Fred Groves – Michael Henchard * Pauline Peters – Susan Henchard * Warwick Ward – Newson * Nell Emerald – Furmity Woman * Mavis Clair – Elizabeth Jane

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* 1921 films 1920s historical drama films Films based on The Mayor of Casterbridge Films directed by Sidney Morgan British black-and-white films British silent feature films 1921 drama films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent British historical drama films English-language historical drama films {{historic-film-stub