The Man from Blankley's
The Man from Blankley's is a comedy by "F. Anstey" (pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie, )[]
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The original text
The film was based on the 1903 play by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, writing under the pseudonym "F.
Translations and adaptations
Twice adapted as film, in 1920 by Paramount Pictures as The Fourteenth Man, starring Robert Warwick, and in 1930 as The Man from Blankley's, directed by Alfred E. Green with John Barrymore and Loretta Young.[1] Both films are now considered lost.
Performance history in South Africa
1901: Performed by the Sass and Nelson Company in the Opera House, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays that commenced on 11 May.
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.409
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