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The Ever Open Door is a British film of genre Drama directed by Fred Goodwins
The Ever Open Door (1920)
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Add to a movie listThe Ever Open Door is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Fred Goodwins and starring Hayford Hobbs, Daphne Glenne and Margaret Hope. It was based on the play The Ever Open Door by George R. Sims, a leading Victorian writer of stage melodramas. It was one of a number of Sim's plays to be adapted for cinema during the Silent era.
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^ Richards p.143
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