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The Man from Home

192270 minUnited KingdomUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

An Indiana heiress traveling in Italy is dazzled by a prince whose family needs her money. Her guardian crosses the Atlantic when a request for a large dowry reveals the danger. His unfashionable directness clashes with her ambitions while the prince's private life threatens to expose the scheme.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
90:09
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · George Fitzmaurice · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorge Fitzmaurice

Behind the scenes

George Fitzmaurice directed this British adaptation of Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson's play, with some scenes filmed in Italy. Alfred Hitchcock worked on its title designs early in his career.

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