Scott Lord Silent Film:The Vicar of Wakefield (Ernest C. Warde, 1917)

The sixth silent film ersion of "The Vicar of Wakefield" (eight reeks) in about that many years was filmed by Ernest C. Warde for the Tanhouser Film Corporation. That year Warde had also filmed an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel "A Woman in White" starring Florence LaBadie.

THe periodical Motion Picture News when reviewing the film adaptation was laudatory of the novel by Oliver Goldsmith, claiming that it was widely read and accoladed by the authors Irving, Scott and Goethe. "So the picture 'Vicar of Wakefield' is stripped of its fine English and narrowed down to bare plot....His plot, if it may be called such, is grossly episodic and wanders," The magazine then appraised the film as a costume drama, Ernst Warde in the production of "The Vicat of Wakefield" has achieved a wonderful atmosphere, realistic to the period, the mid-eighteenth century."

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