''The Place of Honour'' is a 1921 British silent

adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...

directed by

Sinclair Hill Sinclair Hill (10 June 1896 – 6 March 1945) was a British film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894. He was awarded an O ...

and starring

Hugh Buckler Hugh Chilman Buckler (9 September 1881 – 30 October 1936) was a British actor. He was married to stage actress Violet Paget, about whom little has been found, save that she was somehow related to the Marquess of Anglesey. The film actor Joh ...

, Madge White and

Miles Mander Miles Mander (born Lionel Henry Mander; 14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), was an English character actor, writer, director and producer in the post-war period of early British cinema during the 1920s to mid-1930s, as well as a playwright an ...

.Low p.428 It is based on a short story by Ethel M. Dell set in

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

Cast

as Maj. Eustace Tudor * Madge White as Mrs. Tudor * Pardoe Woodman as Lt. Philip Trevor *

as Lt. Devereaux *

M. Gray Murray M. Gray Murray (1871 – 10 February 1937) was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Jobson's Luck'' (1913) * ''The Lure of London'' (1914) * '' The Troubles of an Heiress'' (1914) * ''The Loss of the Birkenhead'' (1914) * ...

as Capt. Raleigh * Ruth Mackay as Mrs. Raleigh * Bob Vallis as Pvt. Archie Smith

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

* 1921 films 1920s war adventure films British war adventure films British silent feature films Films directed by Sinclair Hill Films based on works by Ethel M. Dell Films based on short fiction British black-and-white films Films set in India Films shot at Cricklewood Studios Stoll Pictures films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent war adventure films English-language war adventure films {{1920s-UK-film-stub