Black-Eyed Susan (film)
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Black-Eyed Susan was a 1913 British
silent
comedy
drama film
directed by Percy Nash
. It was an adaptation of the 1829 play Black-Eyed Susan
by Douglas Jerrold.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Percy Nash
Percy Nash
-Selected filmography:* Enoch Arden * Disraeli * Darby and Joan * The Flag Lieutenant * Hobson's Choice * Won by a Head * How Kitchener Was Betrayed * The Croxley Master...
. It was an adaptation of the 1829 play Black-Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is a comic play in three acts by Douglas Jerrold. The story concerns a sailor, William, who returns to England from the Napoleonic Wars and finds that his wife Susan is being harassed by her crooked landlord uncle and later by his drunken, dastardly captain,...
by Douglas Jerrold.