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The Man Who Bought London is a British film of genre Crime with Evelyn Boucher

The Man Who Bought London (1916)

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The Man Who Bought London is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring E.J. Arundel, Evelyn Boucher and Roy Travers. It was based on the 1915 novel of the same title by Edgar Wallace. It was the first of many Wallace stories to be adapted into films. It was made at Catford Studios.

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Evelyn Boucher

(Elsie Marion)
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