Great Adventure (1921)
- Starring:
- Lionel Barrymore, Diana Manners, (more)
Synopsis of Great Adventure
Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett, suffers as a result. When his valet, Henry Leek (Thomas Braidon) dies, famed English artist Priam Farll (Barrymore) takes on his identity to escape the grasping romantic clutches of Lady Sophia Entwistle (Octavia Broske). He attends his own funeral but escapes before the tearful Lady Sophia can see him. Later Farll, as Leek, meets widow Alice Challice (Doris Rankin, Barrymore's real-life wife), who had answered a matrimonial ad of the valet's. They fall in love and marry, but to Farll's dismay, he is forced to return to painting to make money. Even though he is recognized through his work he is loathe to admit his real identity until it develops that Leek already had a wife and two children. Finally he proves that he is Farll, but only if he is allowed to officially remain dead so that Lady Sophia will stay away. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi
Complete Cast of Great Adventure
- Lionel Barrymore - Priam Faril
- Gerald Lawrence - Hugh Argyle
- Alice Crawford - Stephanie Dangerfield
- Doris Rankin - Alice Challice
- Ivo Dawson - Duncan Faril
- Charles Lane - Mr. Oxford
- E.J. Ratcliffe - Lord Leonard Alcar
- Flora Le Breton - Rosemary
- Arthur Rankin - Young Leek
- Paul Kelly - Young Leek
- Fred Wright - Humpty
- Jed Prouty
- Diana Manners - Lady Beatrice Fair
- Octavia Broske - Sophia Entwhistle
- Cecil Humphreys - Walter Roderick
- William Luff - Charles II
- Lennox Pawle - Samuel Pepys
- Rosalie Heath - Catherine of Braganza
- Maybeth Carr - Dorothy
- Victor McLaglen - Bulfinch
- Rudolf de Cordova - Thomas Unwin
- Gertrude Sterroll - Duchess of Moreland
- Fredric March - Extra
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