Owen Nares Movies
British actor Owen Nares played leads in many silent films. Following the advent of sound, he eventually became a character actor. Nares also was a matinée idol in London theater. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1917
A novel by Robert Hichens served as the inspiration for the British melodrama Flames. The story is predicated on the "transmigration of souls" theory. An impressionable young man permits an elderly occultist to "borrow" his soul. When it becomes obvious that the old guy has no intention of returning the younger soul, the hero's friends conspire to trick the trickster into giving up the ghost, as it were. Leading lady Margaret Bannerman plays a character named Cuckoo, indicating perhaps that we aren't expected to take this folderol seriously. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1917
Fred Groves stars in this 1917 British drama as Socialist labor activist John Webster. His consciousness aroused when he meets unmarried, pregnant laundress Nell Slade (Christine Silver), Webster bids farewell to his society sweetheart and leaps into the British political pool. His tireless activities eventually lead him to the Parliament, where he becomes the first-ever Labour Party member elected to that august group. By his side at this triumph is Nell Slade, who has long since become his bride. An unabashed tract, Labour Leader was entertaining enough to please even those filmgoers who didn't subscribe to the protagonist's political views. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
