East Is East (1916 Film) -- Directed By Henry Edwards -- Full Movie

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In the East London tenements lives one Alexandra Vickers, better known as "Viccy." She is rough-tongued, quick-tempered, and generous as far as her slender means allow. Her parents died when the girl was very young and left her to shift for herself. Later she takes up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith and their nephew, Albert Grummett. In the month of August the family decides to go to the hop fields and earn their living picking the sticky vegetable from which is made the national beverage, beer. About this time in America a wealthy contractor dies and leaves his immense fortune to Victoria Alexandra Vickers, the only daughter of his brother. A search is made for the girl and she is finally located in the hop fields. She is placed under the care of a Mrs. Carrington, to become polished. After "Viccy" leaves, Grummett, with five hundred pounds given him by the girl, sets himself up in business and is soon prosperous. Mrs. Carrington's son asks "Viccy" to marry him, as he needs money to pay his debts, and the girl accepts him. She later sees Grummett, however, and after discovering that Carrington wants only her money she goes back to Grummett, and East returns to East.

Directed by Henry Edwards
Written by Philip Hubbard (play)
Gwendolyn Logan
Produced by Henry Edwards
Starring Florence Turner
Henry Edwards
Cinematography Tom White
Production
company

Turner Film Company
Distributed by Butcher's Film Service
Mutual Film (US)
Release date
September 1916
Running time
80 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Languages Silent film
English intertitles

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