A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
Acting
Henry Ainley's holy-fraud energy without spoken dialogue
Production
Authentic slum locations now lost to history
Director
Fred Goodwins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film is considered lost — no known prints survive, so we're all theorizing based on a 1920 trade review.
Released right after WWI, the 'dying soldier' hook hit different when half your audience had actually lost someone.