Under the Greenwood Tree (film)
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Under the Greenwood Tree is a 1929 British
drama film
directed by Harry Lachman
and starring Marguerite Allan
, Nigel Barrie
and John Batten. It is an adaptation of the novel Under the Greenwood Tree
by Thomas Hardy
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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...
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 Harry Lachman
Harry Lachman
Harry B. Lachman was an American artist, set designer, and film director.Born La Salle, Illinois, Lachman was educated at the University of Michigan before becoming a magazine and book illustrator, contributing 4 colour illustrations to the 1907 work John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer by Charles...
and starring Marguerite Allan
Marguerite Allan
-Selected filmography:* Under the Greenwood Tree * The Romance of Seville * Matinee Idol * Daughters of Today * Blossom Time * Those Were the Days * The Big Splash...
, Nigel Barrie
Nigel Barrie
-Selected filmography:* Fires of Fate * Husband Hunters * The Shield of Honor * The Ringer * The Forger * Under the Greenwood Tree * Dreyfus * Passenger to London...
and John Batten. It is an adaptation of the novel Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels...
by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
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Cast
- Marguerite AllanMarguerite Allan-Selected filmography:* Under the Greenwood Tree * The Romance of Seville * Matinee Idol * Daughters of Today * Blossom Time * Those Were the Days * The Big Splash...
- Fancy Day - Nigel BarrieNigel Barrie-Selected filmography:* Fires of Fate * Husband Hunters * The Shield of Honor * The Ringer * The Forger * Under the Greenwood Tree * Dreyfus * Passenger to London...
- Shinar - John Batten - Dick Dewey
- Maud Gill - Old Maid
- Wilfred ShineWilfred Shine-Selected filmography:* The Burgomaster of Stilemonde * The Lady from the Sea * Under the Greenwood Tree * The Loves of Robert Burns * The Bells * The Hound of the Baskervilles...
- Parson Maybold - Roberta Abel - Penny
- Antonia BroughAntonia Brough-Selected filmography:* The Farmer's Wife * Under the Greenwood Tree * Spanish Eyes * Song of Soho * Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn * Dandy Dick...
- Maid - Tom CoventryTom Coventry-Selected filmography:* A Fortune at Stake * The House of Peril * Paddy the Next Best Thing * Dixon's Return * Claude Duval * The Wonderful Wooing * The Squire of Long Hadley...
- Tranter Dewey - Robison Page - Grandfather Dewey
- Tubby Phillips - Tubby
- Bill ShineBill ShineBill Shine, born Wilfred William Dennis Shine, was a British theatre, film and television actor. Shine was born into a family of theatre actors; among others, Shine's father, mother, grandmother, two uncles and an aunt had worked in theatre. His father Wilfred Shine was a theatre actor who also...
- Leaf - Peggie Robb-Smith - Allan