''Whosoever Shall Offend'' is a 1919 British silent

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combi ...

directed by

Arrigo Bocchi Arrigo Bocchi (c.1871 – ?) was a British-Italian film director and film producer, producer of the silent era.Low p.149-50 After the First World War Bocchi worked for Windsor Films at the Catford Studios in London as well as shooting films locati ...

and starring

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 ...

Mary Odette Marie Odette Goimbault (10 August 1901 – 26 March 1987), known professionally as Mary Odette, was a French-born film actress. Odette starred in a number of films made by Astra Films. After the slump of 1924 dramatically reduced the number o ...

and Mary Marsh Allen.Low p.479 The screenplay concerns a man murders his wife in Italy and then tries to marry a wealthy women.

Cast

as Guido Falco *

as Aurora * Mary Marsh Allen as Regina *

Hayford Hobbs Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 - 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Genera ...

as Marcello Consalvi * Evelyn Harding as Signora Consalvi *

Charles Vane Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born in the Kingdom of England around 1680. One of his first pirate ventures was under the l ...

as Ercole * Maud Cressall as Countess Del Armi *

Barbara Everest Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film ''The Man Without a Soul''. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 hist ...

as Maddalena *

Philip Hewland Philip Hewland (12 December 1876, Gravesend, Kent, England – 1953, Ealing, London) was a British actor. He had one son Ivor and a granddaughter Domini. Selected filmography * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''His Daughter's Dilemma'' (1916) * '' Ar ...

as Professor Kalmon * Joyce Templeton as Regina (child)

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1919 films 1919 crime drama films British silent feature films British crime drama films Films set in Italy Films directed by Arrigo Bocchi Films based on American novels Films based on works by Francis Marion Crawford British black-and-white films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Silent crime drama films {{1910s-UK-film-stub