1920 film
Passers By Directed by J. Stuart Blackton Written by Stanley Olmstead Based on Passers By by C. Haddon ChambersProduced by J. Stuart Blackton Starring Herbert Rawlinson Leila Valentine Ellen Burford Cinematography William S. Adams Production company
J. Stuart Blackton Feature Pictures
Distributed by Pathé Exchange Release date
June 20, 1920 (1920-06-20 )
Running time
60 minutes Country United States Languages Silent English intertitles
Passers By is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Leila Valentine and Ellen Burford. It was based on a 1911 West End play of the same title by C. Haddon Chambers, which had previously been made into the 1916 film Passers By .[ 1]
Plot [ edit ]
In England a young man falls in love with the governess to his stepsister's children. When she discovers about the potential relationship she does her best to sabotage it due to her snobbish attitudes.
Cast [ edit ]
Herbert Rawlinson as Peter Waverton
Leila Valentine as Margaret Summers
Ellen Burford as Beatrice Dainton
Pauline Coffyn as Lady Hurley
William J. Ferguson as Pine, the Butler
Tom Lewis as Nighty
Dick Lee as Burns
Charles Stuart Blackton as Little Peter
References [ edit ]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2 . December Press, 1998.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film . Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links [ edit ]
Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Feature films
The Life of Moses (1909)
The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
Whom the Gods Destroy (1916)
The Judgment House (1917)
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917)
Life's Greatest Problem (1918)
The World for Sale (1918)
The Common Cause (1919)
My Husband's Other Wife (1920)
Passers By (1920)
The House of the Tolling Bell (1920)
Respectable by Proxy (1920)
Man and His Woman (1920)
The Blood Barrier (1920)
The Forbidden Valley (1920)
The Glorious Adventure (1922)
A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
The Virgin Queen (1923)
On the Banks of the Wabash (1923)
Between Friends (1924)
Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924)
The Beloved Brute (1924)
The Clean Heart (1924)
Behold This Woman (1924)
The Happy Warrior (1925)
The Redeeming Sin (1925)
Tides of Passion (1925)
Bride of the Storm (1926)
Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926)
The Gilded Highway (1926)
The Passionate Quest (1926)
The American (1927)
Short films
The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
The Automobile Thieves (1906)
The Haunted Hotel (1907)
A Curious Dream (1907)
Macbeth (1908)
Romeo and Juliet (1908)
Antony and Cleopatra (1908)
Oliver Twist (1909)
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
Les Misérables (1909)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
Related
Vitagraph Studios
Paula Blackton (wife)
Marian Constance Blackton (daughter)