The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
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Directed by | Sidney Morgan |
Based on | The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy |
Starring | Fred Groves, Pauline Peters, Warwick Ward, Nell Emerald, Mavis Clair |
Production company | Sidney Morgan's Shoreham Beach studio |
Release date | 1921 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1921 British silent film drama directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Fred Groves, Pauline Peters and Warwick Ward.[1] It was an adaptation of the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and was made with Hardy's collaboration.[2]
The film was largely filmed in Sussex, mainly in Steyning and partly at Morgan's Shoreham Beach studio, with other scenes filmed in the Dorset town of Dorchester,[2] the actual setting of Casterbridge.