The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915 film)

1915 British film

The Man Who Stayed at Home is a 1915 British silent thriller film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and starring Dennis Eadie, Violet Hopson and Alma Taylor.^[1] It is based on the play by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry.^[2]

Plot summary

During the First World War a detective poses as a man who has evaded military service in order to infiltrate a gang of enemy spies operating out of a coastal boarding house.

Cast

• Dennis Eadie as Christopher Brent
• Violet Hopson as Miriam Leigh
• Alma Taylor as Molly Preston
• Lionelle Howard as Carl Sanderson
• Chrissie White as Daphne Kidlington
• Henry Edwards as Fritz
• Dorothy Rowan as Mrs. Sanderson
• Jean Cadell as Miss Myrtle
• Ruby Belasco as Fraulein Schroeder

References

1. Palmer p.367
2. Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film (reprint ed.). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 542, 775, 856. ISBN 9783110951943. Retrieved 14 July 2016.

Bibliography

• Palmer, Scott. British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987. McFarland, 1988.

External links

• The Man Who Stayed at Home at IMDb
• Play: The Man Who Stayed at Home archive.org Retrieved 15 July 2016