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1921 film

General Post
Directed by	Thomas Bentley
Written by	Eliot Stannard
Based on	General Post (play) by J. E. Harold Terry
Starring	Douglas Munro Robert Henderson Bland Lilian Braithwaite Joyce Dearsley
Production company	Ideal Film Company
Distributed by	Ideal Film Company
Release date	1920 (1920)
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent English intertitles

General Post is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Douglas Munro, Lilian Braithwaite and Joyce Dearsley. It was based on the play General Post by J. E. Harold Terry in which Lillian Braithwaite had appeared when it premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in March 1917.

Plot

During the First World War a small-town tailor rises to become a General.

Cast

Douglas Munro...Albert Smith
Lilian Braithwaite...Lady Broughton
Joyce Dearsley...Betty Broughton
Robert Henderson Bland...Edward Smith
Dawson Millward...Denys Broughton
Colstan Mansell...Alec Broughton
Teddy Arundell...Jobson
Sara de Groot...Miss Prendergast
Adelaide Grace...Lady Wareing
Thomas Canning...Lord Wareing
Irene Drew...Mary Wareing

References

"BFI | Film & TV Database | GENERAL POST #1920#". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
Terry, J. E. Harold (1918). General Post (2nd ed.). London: Methuen & Co. p. 8. Retrieved 30 March 2017 – via archive.org.

External links

General Post at IMDb
General Post at BFI Player, British Film Institute

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Films directed by Thomas Bentley

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