The Girl Who Loves a Soldier [SEP] director
The Girl Who Loves a Soldier
The Girl Who Loves a Soldier is a 1916 British silent war film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Vesta Tilley, Sydney Folker and James Lindsay. It was made at Isleworth Studios. During the First World War a nurse disguises herself as a man and carries her wounded fiancé's important military dispatches.
Cast.
- Vesta Tilley as Vesta Beaumont
- Sydney Folker as Chris Barker
- James Lindsay as Lord Strathmore
- Norman Cheyne as Billy Williams / Bob Purdy
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- "Lokis" – a horror story, set in Lithuania, about a man who appears to be half-bear and half-man. This was