The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915 film)

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1915 British film

The Man Who Stayed at Home

Directed by| Cecil M. Hepworth
Based on|

The Man Who Stayed at Home (play)

* Lechmere Worrall
* J. E. Harold Terry

Starring|

* Dennis Eadie
* Violet Hopson
* Alma Taylor

Production
company

Hepworth Picture Plays

Distributed by| Central Films

Release date

* July 1915 (1915-07)

Running time

| 3,000 feet
Country| United Kingdom
Languages|

* Silent
* English intertitles

The Man Who Stayed at Home is a 1915 British silent thriller film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and starring Dennis Eadie, Violet Hopson and Alma Taylor.[1] It is based on the play by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry.[2]

## Plot summary

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During the First World War a detective poses as a man who has evaded military service in order to infiltrate a gang of enemy spies operating out of a coastal boarding house.

## Cast

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* Dennis Eadie as Christopher Brent
* Violet Hopson as Miriam Leigh
* Alma Taylor as Molly Preston
* Lionelle Howard as Carl Sanderson
* Chrissie White as Daphne Kidlington
* Henry Edwards as Fritz
* Dorothy Rowan as Mrs. Sanderson
* Jean Cadell as Miss Myrtle
* Ruby Belasco as Fraulein Schroeder

## References

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1. ^ Palmer p.367
2. ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film (reprint ed.). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 542, 775, 856. ISBN 9783110951943. Retrieved 14 July 2016.

## Bibliography

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* Palmer, Scott. British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987. McFarland, 1988.

## External links

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* The Man Who Stayed at Home at IMDb
* Play: The Man Who Stayed at Home archive.org Retrieved 15 July 2016

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Films directed by Cecil Hepworth

* The Egg-Laying Man (1897)
* The Beggar's Deceit (1900)
* How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)
* Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
* Alice in Wonderland (1903)
* A Day in the Hayfields (1904)
* Rescued by Rover (1905)
* Baby's Toilet (1905)
* The Cloister and the Hearth (1913)
* The Baby on the Barge (1915)
* The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915)
* Annie Laurie (1916)
* Molly Bawn (1916)
* The Marriage of William Ashe (1916)
* Trelawny of the Wells (1916)
* The Cobweb (1917)
* The American Heiress (1917)
* The Refugee (1918)
* Broken in the Wars (1919)
* The Forest on the Hill (1919)
* The Nature of the Beast (1919)
* Anna the Adventuress (1920)
* Helen of Four Gates (1920)
* The Narrow Valley (1921)
* Tansy (1921)
* The Tinted Venus (1921)
* Wild Heather (1921)
* Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
* Strangling Threads (1923)
* Mist in the Valley (1923)
* The House of Marney (1927)

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