Foul Play (novel)
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Foul Play is an 1869 melodramatic novel by the British writer Charles Reade
. In Victorian Britain a clergyman is wrongly convicted of a crime and transported
as a convict to Australia
.
directed by Edwin J. Collins
and starring Renee Kelly
and Henry Hallett
.
Charles Reade
Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
. In Victorian Britain a clergyman is wrongly convicted of a crime and transported
Transported
Transported is a 1913 Australian silent movie directed by W. J. Lincoln. It stars George Bryant, Godfrey Cass and Roy Redgrave. The movie was 28 minutes long....
as a convict to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Adaptation
In 1920 the novel was adapted into a silent film Foul PlayFoul Play (1920 film)
Foul Play is a 1920 British silent crime film directed by Edwin J. Collins and starring Renee Kelly, Henry Hallett and Randolph McLeod. It is adapted from the 1869 novel Foul Play by Charles Reade. In Victorian England, a clergyman is wrongly transported to Australia for a crime he did not...
directed by Edwin J. Collins
Edwin J. Collins
-Selected filmography:* Tom Jones * Miss Charity * Esmeralda * The Green Caravan * The Taming of the Shrew * A Gamble with Hearts -External links:...
and starring Renee Kelly
Renee Kelly
-Selected filmography:* Westward Ho! * Foul Play * All Sorts and Conditions of Men * The Likeness of the Night * Scarlet Thread...
and Henry Hallett
Henry Hallett
-Selected filmography:* Foul Play * The Ringer * The Hound of the Baskervilles * Victoria the Great * Sixty Glorious Years * Let's Be Famous * Salute John Citizen...
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