Mr. Gilfil's Love Story | |
Director: | A. V. Bramble |
Starring: | Robert Henderson Bland Mary Odette Peter Upcher Dora De Winton |
Studio: | Ideal Film Company |
Distributor: | Ideal Film Company |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
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.[1] 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.