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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1285

Lorna Doone

192286 minUnited States

Synopsis

Young John Ridd meets Lorna shortly before an outlaw clan abducts her. Years later, the childhood bond survives amid rival loyalties, concealed identity and the violence surrounding the Doone family.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 85:42
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Maurice Tourneur · Public domain

Cast

Madge Bellamy

John Bowers

Frank Keenan

Jack McDonald

DirectorsMaurice Tourneur

Inspirations

Maurice Tourneur adapted R. D. Blackmore's novel of seventeenth-century England. Madge Bellamy plays Lorna in this American production, one of several silent adaptations of the book.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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Madge Bellamy — Edwin Bower Hesser · Public domain
John Bowers — Author not identified; source: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Frank Keenan — unattributed; (Please provide the title of the work) [1] , American biography edition, New York: Published under the direction of the American Historical Society, 1916 · Public domain
Jack McDonald — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; detail from http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=104727 · Public domain

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