Kipps | |
Director: | Harold M. Shaw |
Based On: | Kipps by H. G. Wells |
Starring: | George K. Arthur Edna Flugrath Christine Rayner |
Cinematography: | Silvano Balboni |
Studio: | Stoll Pictures |
Distributor: | Stoll Pictures |
Runtime: | 82 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | Silent English intertitles |
Kipps is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring George K. Arthur, Edna Flugrath and Christine Rayner.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1905 novel Kipps by H. G. Wells. It was made by Stoll Pictures, the largest film company in the British Isles at the time.[2] The novel was subsequently remade into the 1941 sound film Kipps directed by Carol Reed.
After losing his job in a Folkestone drapery, young Arthur Kipps inherits a considerable sum of money and has his head turned towards the well-bred Helen Walsingham and away from his childhood sweetheart Ann.