Adam Bede (film) explained

Adam Bede
Director:	Maurice Elvey
Screenplay:	Kenelm Foss
Studio:	International Exclusives
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent

Adam Bede is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Bransby Williams, Ivy Close and Malvina Longfellow.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1859 novel Adam Bede by George Eliot.

Plot summary

A squire's grandson saves a farmer's niece from the charge of murdering her bastard baby.

Cast

• Bransby Williams — Adam Bede
• Ivy Close — Hetty Sorrel
• Malvina Longfellow — Dinah Morris
• Gerald Ames — Arthur Donnithome
• Claire Pauncefort -— Aunt Lydia
• Inez Bensusan — Sarah Thorne
• Charles Stanley — Seth Bede
• Ralph Forster — Squire

References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | ADAM BEDE (1918) . 19 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023213119/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/127149 . 23 October 2012 . dead .