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General Post
Directed byThomas Bentley
Written byEliot Stannard
Based onGeneral Post (play)
by J. E. Harold Terry
Starring
Production
company
Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
1920
CountryUnited Kingdom
Languages

General Post is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Douglas Munro, Lilian Braithwaite and Joyce Dearsley.[1] It was based on the play General Post by J. E. Harold Terry in which Lillian Braithwaite had appeared when it premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in March 1917.[2]

Plot

During the First World War a small-town tailor rises to become a General.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | GENERAL POST #1920#". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  2. ^ Terry, J. E. Harold (1918). General Post (2nd ed.). London: Methuen & Co. p. 8. Retrieved 30 March 2017 – via archive.org.