The Lure of London
The Lure of London is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Ivy Close, Edward Viner and M. Gray Murray. It is based on a play of the same title by Arthur Applin.
It revolves around the lost daughter of a surgeon from London who is adopted by a "cockney drunkard"; she becomes a dancer and has an accident before being operated by her own real father.
The film was "praised for scened enacted among the hustle and bustle of the city."
Cast
- Ivy Close as Daisy Westbury
- Edward Viner as William Anderson
- M. Gray Murray as Charlie Brooks
- William Harbord as Sir John Westbury
- Leal Douglas as Lady Westbury
- Gwenda Wren as Olga Westbury
- Lempriere Pringle as George Stamford
- F.W. Trotti as Brooks - a Coster
- M. Delarue as Mrs. Brooks