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The Headmaster is a British film of genre Drama with Margot Drake

The Headmaster (1921)

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The Headmaster is a 1921 British silent comedy-drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Cyril Maude, Margot Drake and Miles Malleson. It is based on the 1913 play The Headmaster by Edward Knoblock and Wilfred Coleby. A clergyman working as the headmaster of a school tries to persuade his daughter to marry the idiotic son of an influential figure in the hope of being promoted to bishop.

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Margot Drake

(Portia Sancturay)Miles Malleson

(Palliser Grantley)
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