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Without Benefit of Clergy
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5200 feet
Directed by James Young

Cast: Virginia Brown Faire [Ameera], Thomas Holding [John Holden], Evelyn Selbie [Ameera’s mother], Otto Lederer [Ahghan, the moneylender], Boris Karloff [Ahmed Khan], Nigel de Brulier [Pir Khan], Herbert Prior [Hugh Sanders], Ruth Sinclair [Alice Sanders], E.G. Miller [Michael Devenish], Philippe de Lacy [Tota, age 5]

Robert Brunton Productions production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Paul Brunton. Scenario by Randolph C. Lewis, from the novel Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling. Production supervision by Randolph C. Lewis. Production design by Rudyard Kipling. / © 2 June 1921 by Robert Brunton Productions [LU16677]. Released July 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 March 2012.

References: Nollen-Karloff p. 351 : Website-AFI.