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The Passing of the Third Floor Back is a British film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Brenon released in USA on 1 may 1918 with Johnston Forbes-Robertson

The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918)

The Passing of the Third Floor Back
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Released in USA 1 may 1918
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Genres Drama
Rating60% 3.035943.035943.035943.035943.03594

(For the 1935 film starring Conrad Veidt see The Passing of the Third Floor Back)



The Passing of the Third Floor Back is a 1918 British/American silent allegorical film based on the 1908 play The Passing of the Third Floor Back by Jerome K. Jerome and directed by Herbert Brenon. The star of the film is Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, a legendary Shakespearean actor, who starred in the 1909 Broadway presentation of the play and its 1913 revival. Forbes-Robertson had been knighted by King George V in 1913 and had retired from acting in theatre that same year. In his retirement Forbes-Robertson had only dabbled in film acting making a 1913 film version of Hamlet, the most famous role he had played on the stage. Filmed in 1916, released in 1918.

Actors

Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Molly Pearson

(Stasia(*Molly Pearson played this part in the 1909 Broadway play))Alfred Hickman
George Le Guere

(Christopher Penny, A Coward (played by David Powell in the play) (*Le Guerre unbilled))Victory Bateman

(Miss De Hooley, a snob (*unbilled))
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