The Masquerader (1922 film)

The Masquerader
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Directed by	James Young
Written by	John Hunter Booth (play) Katherine Cecil Thurston (novel) Richard Walton Tully
Starring	Guy Bates Post Ruth Cummings Edward Kimball
Edited by	A. Carle Palm
Production company	Richard Walton Tully Productions
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	July 1922 (1922-07)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Masquerader is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Guy Bates Post, Ruth Cummings, and Edward Kimball. A jaded British politician arranges for his place to be taken by his doppelganger cousin. The film was based on the 1904 novel The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston. It was remade in 1933 with Ronald Colman in the lead roles.

Cast

• Guy Bates Post as John Chilcote M.P. / John Loder
• Ruth Cummings as Eve Chilcote
• Edward Kimball as Brock
• Herbert Standing as Herbert Fraide
• Lawson Butt as Mr. Lakely
• Marcia Manon as Lady Lillian Astrupp
• Barbara Tennant as Bobby Blessington

Plot

With his excessive indulgences, a revered British statesman ruins his political career. In order to make a comeback, he employees his cousin, who looks very much like him, as a body-double to take over his life in order to rekindle his political career.

Preservation

With no prints of The Masquerader located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The Masquerader at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie