The Greatest Wish in the World
1918 film by Maurice Elvey
The Greatest Wish in the World is a 1918 British silent romance film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Bransby Williams, Mary Odette and Edward Combermere.[1] It was adapted from a novel by E. Temple Thurston.
Cast
- Bransby Williams - Father O'Leary
- Mary Odette - Peggy
- Edward Combermere - Stephen Gale
- Ada King - Mrs. Parfitt
- Douglas Munro - Pinches
- Gwynne Herbert - Mrs. Gooseberry
- Jean Aylwin - Mother Superior
- Teddy Arundell
- Will Corrie
References
- ^ BFI.org
External links
- The Greatest Wish in the World at IMDb
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Films directed by Maurice Elvey
- Maria Marten (1913)
- The Suicide Club (1914)
- The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914)
- Her Luck in London (1914)
- The Idol of Paris (1914)
- There's Good in Everyone (1915)
- Honeymoon for Three (1915)
- Gilbert Gets Tiger-It is (1915)
- Midshipman Easy (1915)
- Gilbert Dying to Die (1915)
- Florence Nightingale (1915)
- From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915)
- Her Nameless Child (1915)
- Home (1915)
- Love in a Wood (1915)
- Fine Feathers (1915)
- Charity Ann (1915)
- A Will of Her Own (1915)
- Meg the Lady (1916)
- Esther (1916)
- Driven (1916)
- Vice Versa (1916)
- Money for Nothing (1916)
- When Knights Were Bold (1916)
- Trouble for Nothing (1916)
- The Princess of Happy Chance (1916)
- The King's Daughter (1916)
- Mother Love (1916)
- Smith (1917)
- The Grit of a Jew (1917)
- The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917)
- Justice (1917)
- The Gay Lord Quex (1917)
- Flames (1917)
- Mary Girl (1917)
- Hindle Wakes (1918)
- The Greatest Wish in the World (1918)
- Goodbye (1918)
- Adam Bede (1918)
- The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
- Nelson (1918)
- Comradeship (1919)
- Quinneys (1919)
- Keeper of the Door (1919)
- Dombey and Son (1919)
- The Rocks of Valpre (1919)
- God's Good Man (1919)
- Mr. Wu (1919)
- The Swindler (1919)
- The Elusive Pimpernel (1919)
- Bleak House (1920)
- The Amateur Gentleman (1920)
- At the Villa Rose (1920)
- The Hundredth Chance (1920)
- A Question of Trust (1920)
- The Tavern Knight (1920)
- The Victory Leaders (1920)
- Innocent (1921)
- A Gentleman of France (1921)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
- The Fruitful Vine (1921)
- A Romance of Wastdale (1921)
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921)
- The Passionate Friends (1922)
- Running Water (1922)
- Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922)
- A Debt of Honour (1922)
- The Wandering Jew (1923)
- The Sign of Four (1923)
- Guy Fawkes (1923)
- The Royal Oak (1923)
- Sally Bishop (1923)
- Don Quixote (1923)
- Henry, King of Navarre (1924)
- Slaves of Destiny (1924)
- The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924)
- My Husband's Wives (1924)
- Folly of Vanity (1924)
- Curlytop (1924)
- She Wolves (1925)
- Every Man's Wife (1925)
- The Woman Tempted (1926)
- The Flag Lieutenant (1926)
- Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1926)
- Roses of Picardy (1927)
- Tragedy of a Marriage (1927)
- Hindle Wakes (1927)
- The Flight Commander (1927)
- Quinneys (1927)
- The Glad Eye (1927)
- Mademoiselle Parley Voo (1928)
- Balaclava (1928)
- Palais de danse (1928)
- You Know What Sailors Are (1928)
- High Treason (1929)
- The School for Scandal (1930)
- Potiphar's Wife (1931)
- Sally in Our Alley (1931)
- A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)
- Frail Women (1932)
- In a Monastery Garden (1932)
- The Marriage Bond (1932)
- The Water Gipsies (1932)
- Diamond Cut Diamond (1932)
- The Lodger (1932)
- The Lost Chord (1933)
- I Lived with You (1933)
- This Week of Grace (1933)
- Soldiers of the King (1933)
- Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
- Road House (1934)
- Lily of Killarney (1934)
- The Clairvoyant (1935)
- The Tunnel (1935)
- Heat Wave (1935)
- Spy of Napoleon (1936)
- The Man in the Mirror (1936)
- A Romance in Flanders (1937)
- Who Killed John Savage? (1937)
- Melody and Romance (1937)
- Change for a Sovereign (1937)
- Lightning Conductor (1938)
- Who Goes Next? (1938)
- The Return of the Frog (1938)
- Sword of Honour (1939)
- Sons of the Sea (1939)
- Under Your Hat (1940)
- The Spider (1940)
- For Freedom (1940)
- Room for Two (1940)
- Salute John Citizen (1942)
- The Lamp Still Burns (1943)
- Medal for the General (1944)
- Strawberry Roan (1945)
- Beware of Pity (1946)
- The Third Visitor (1951)
- The Late Edwina Black (1951)
- My Wife's Lodger (1952)
- The Great Game (1953)
- Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953)
- House of Blackmail (1953)
- The Harassed Hero (1954)
- What Every Woman Wants (1954)
- The Gay Dog (1954)
- The Happiness of Three Women (1954)
- You Lucky People! (1955)
- Room in the House (1955)
- Fun at St. Fanny's (1956)
- Dry Rot (1956)
- Stars in Your Eyes (1956)
- Second Fiddle (1957)
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