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1925 film

Greater Than a Crown
Film still
Directed by	Roy William Neill
Written by	Wyndham Gittens
Based on	The Lady from Long Acre by Victor Bridges
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	Edmund Lowe Dolores Costello Margaret Livingston
Cinematography	Joseph H. August
Production company	Fox Film
Distributed by	Fox Film
Release date	July 12, 1925 (1925-07-12)
Running time	1 hour
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Greater Than a Crown is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Edmund Lowe, Dolores Costello, and Margaret Livingston. It was based on a 1918 novel The Lady from Long Acre by the British writer Victor Bridges. The novel had previously been adapted as the 1921 film The Lady from Longacre.

Plot

An American man in London assists an escaped Princess who has fled to England to escape a royal marriage. After she is kidnapped and taken home, he goes to rescue her with the assistance of his English actress friend.

Cast

Edmund Lowe as Tom Conway
Dolores Costello as Isabel Frances / Princess of Lividia
Margaret Livingston as Molly Montrose
Ben Hendricks Jr. as Tiger Bugg (credited as Ben Hendricks)
Paul Panzer as Marquis Ferasti
Tony Merlo as King Danilo (credited as Anthony Merlo)
Robert Klein as Count Seda
Dorothy Seay

Preservation

A print of Greater Than a Crown is preserved in a foreign film archive.

References

Bibliography

Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.

External links

Greater Than a Crown at IMDb

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1940s	His Brother's Keeper (1940) Hoots Mon! (1940) The Good Old Days (1940) Eyes of the Underworld (1942) Madame Spy (1942) Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Rhythm of the Islands (1943) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) The Spider Woman (1944) The Scarlet Claw (1944) The Pearl of Death (1944) Gypsy Wildcat (1944) Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945) The Woman in Green (1945) Pursuit to Algiers (1945) Terror by Night (1946) Dressed to Kill (1946) Black Angel (1946)

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