The Headmaster is a 1921 British silent comedy-drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Cyril Maude, Margot Drake and Miles Malleson.Low p.379 It is based on the 1913 play The Headmaster by Edward Knoblock and Wilfred Coleby. The film can be summarized as 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.
Cast Cyril Maude as Rev. Cuthbert Sanctuary Margot Drake as Portia Sanctuary Miles Malleson as Palliser Grantley Marie Illington as Cornelia Grantley Lionelle Howard as Jack Strahan Simeon Stuart as Dean of Carchester Ann Trevor as Antigone Sanctuary Louie Freear as Bella Will Corrie as Sgt. Munton Alan Selby as Richards Gordon Craig as Stuart Minor
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Bibliography Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
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