Widecombe Fair (film)

Widecombe Fair
Directed byNorman Walker
Written byEden Phillpotts (novel)
Eliot Stannard
StarringWilliam Freshman
Marguerite Allan
Wyndham Standing
Violet Hopson
Moore Marriott
CinematographyClaude Friese-Greene
Edited byEmile de Ruelle
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
  • December 1928 (1928-12)
Running time
6,800 feet[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Widecombe Fair is a 1928 British silent comedy drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring William Freshman, Marguerite Allan, Moore Marriott and Judd Green.[2] The screenplay concerns a farmer who is able to save his farm when he digs up buried treasure. The film's plot was adapted from a 1913 novel by Eden Phillpotts, loosely based on the popular folk song "Widecombe Fair".

  1. ^ Low p. 479
  2. ^ "Widecombe Fair (1928)". Archived from the original on 22 November 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2018.