Mr. Gilfil's Love Story is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Robert Henderson Bland, Mary Odette and Peter Upcher.BFI.org It was based on the short story Mr. Gilfil's Love Story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of Clerical Life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later, leaving him in a state of grief.
Cast Robert Henderson Bland - Maynard Gilfil Mary Odette - Caterina Peter Upcher - Anthony Wybrow Dora De Winton - Lady Clevere A. Harding Steerman - Sir Christopher Chever Aileen Bagot - Beatrice Asscher Norma Whalley - Lady Asscher John Boella - Signor Sarti Irene Drew - Dorcas Robert Clifton - Knott
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External links
"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" free PDF of Blackwood's 1878 Cabinet Edition (the critical standard with Eliot's final corrections) at the George Eliot Archive