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AULD ROBIN GRAY

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Subjects:

  • Arts and crafts

Genres:

  • Historical

Decade:

  • 1910s

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Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

Reference number: 4429

Date: 1910

Director: d. Larry Trimble

Production company: Vitagraph

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 11.25 mins

Description: Sentimental tale of a young Scottish girl forced to marry an elderly gentleman for financial reasons when her lover is thought lost at sea. The lover returns to claim his betrothed but discovers that she intends to remain loyal to her kind but aged husband.

From original preserved in National Film and Television Archive

Credits: cast Florence Turner, Maurice Costello
country of origin USA
Based on ballad Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Lindsay

Shotlist: Sentimental tale of a young Scottish girl forced to marry an elderly gentleman for financial reasons when her lover is thought lost at sea. The lover returns to claim his betrothed but discovers that she intends to remain loyal to her kind but aged husband. [A prime example of 'Kailyard' cinema] (11.25)