Milestones (1916 film) explained

Milestones
Director:	Thomas Bentley
Starring:	Isobel Elsom Owen Nares Minna Grey
Studio:	G.B. Samuelson Productions
Distributor:	Moss Films
Runtime:	90 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent

Milestones is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Isobel Elsom, Owen Nares and Minna Grey. It is an adaptation of the 1912 West End play Milestones by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock. Four years later an American film of the same title was released.^[1] As of August 2010, the film is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.^[2]

Plot

A young anarchist and shipbuilder refuses to listen to his conservative father.

Cast

• Isobel Elsom as Lady Monkhurst
• Owen Nares as Lord Monkhurst
• Campbell Gullan as Sir John Rhead
• Minna Grey as Gertrude Rhead
• Mary Lincoln as Rose Sibley
• Hubert Harben as Sam Sibley
• Esme Hubbard as Nancy Sibley
• Cecil Morton York as Joseph Sibley
• Roy Travers as Arthur Preece
• Lionel d'Aragon as Andrew MacLean
• Herbert Daniel as Richard Sibley
• Ernest A. Graham as Ned Pym
• Winifred Delavente as the Honourable Muriel Pym
• Molly Hamley-Clifford as Mrs. Rhead

See also

• List of lost films

External links

• BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes
  • Milestones at SilentEra

Notes and References

1. Goble p.35
2. Web site: Milestones / BFI Most Wanted . 11 August 2010 . British Film Institute . BFI National Archives . https://web.archive.org/web/20120803092516/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/milestones.html . 3 August 2012 . dead .