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The Vicar of Wakefield
(1916) England
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Fred Paul

Cast: Sir John Hare, Laura Cowie, Ben Webster, Marie Illington, A.E. George, Margaret Shelley, Frank Woolfe, Martin Lewis, Lambert Terry, Mabel Twemlow, Jess Dorynne

Ideal Films, Limited, production. / Scenario by Benedict James, from the novel The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. / Released October 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Limbacher-Feature p. 266 mistakenly identifies this film as the Thanhouser production of 1917.

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Authors: Oliver Goldsmith

Listing updated: 27 January 2010.

References: Gifford-British n. 06320; Limbacher-Feature p. 266.