Comin' Thro the Rye (1923 film)

Comin' Thro the Rye (1923 film)
Comin' Thro the Rye
Directed by Cecil Hepworth
Produced by Hepworth Picture Plays
Written by Helen Mathers (novel)
Blanche McIntosh
Starring Alma Taylor
Ralph Forbes
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Release date(s) 1923
Running time 115.0 mins
Country  United Kingdom
Language Silent film
English intertitles

Comin' Thro the Rye is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor and Ralph Forbes. A woman is prevented from marrying the man she loves by the interference of another woman. It was based on a novel of the same name by Helen Mathers. The title alludes to the Robert Burns poem Comin' Through the Rye.

A clip of it is seen in the 1957 comedy The Smallest Show on Earth, where the elderly staff of the old fleapit cinema tearfully watch silent films on their evenings off.[1]

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Plot

The story of a young girl who is prevented from marrying the man she loves by the machinations of a designing woman.< The plot centres around the heroine, Helen Adair, who is courted by George Tempest but who meets and falls in love with Paul Vasher. Vasher's former love Sylvia Fleming who has betrayed him, is jealous of his affections for Helen and manages by intercepting mail between the lovers to plot to win him back. While Vasher is abroad she places a false announcement of the marriage of Helen and George in the Times and in his despair at this news he agrees to marry her. Sylvia is trapped in a loveless marriage, Helen retains her virtue, Vasher never forgets his love for Helen and in a final letter from the battlefield writes to his true love telling her he will meet her 'Comin' through the rye'.

Cast

  • Alma Taylor as Helen Adair
  • Shayle Gardner as Paul Vasher
  • Eileen Dennes as Sylvia Fleming
  • Ralph Forbes as George Tempest
  • James Carew as Col. Adair
  • Francis Lister as Dick Fellowes
  • Gwynne Herbert as Mrs. Adair
  • Henry Vibart as Mr. Tempest
  • Christine Rayner as Jane Peach
  • Nancy Price as Mrs. Titmouse
  • John MacAndrews as Simpkins
  • Margot Armstrong as Alice Adair

References

  1. ^ http://www.south-central-media.co.uk/camethedawn.htm

External links

Further reading

  • Raising the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain, Andrew Higson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-812369-8. Chapter on Comin' Thro the Rye: pp. 26–97.

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