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The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope is a film of genre Drama directed by Anthony Asquith with Mabel Constanduros
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope (1936)
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The Story of Papworth (also known as The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope) is a 1936 British short drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker and C. Aubrey Smith. A consumptive who is saved by the village of Papworth who raise funds for his treatment.
Actors
Mabel Constanduros
Gordon Harker
(Henry Hawkins, a working man)
Madeleine Carroll
(The Introducer)
C. Aubrey Smith
(Epilogue)
Owen Nares
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