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1923 silent film directed by Maurice Elvey

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1923 silent film directed by Maurice Elvey

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Guy Fawkes is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Nina Vanna and Hugh Buckler. The film depicts the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in which a group of plotters planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. It was based on the 1840 novel Guy Fawkes by William Harrison Ainsworth.

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Guy Fawkes is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Nina Vanna and Hugh Buckler. The film depicts the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in which a group of plotters planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. It was based on the 1840 novel Guy Fawkes by Harrison Ainsworth. Cast Matheson Lang - Guy Fawkes Nina Vanna - Viviana Ratcliffe Hugh Buckler - Robert Catesby Shayle Gardner - Humphrey Lionel d'Aragon - Earl of Salisbury Edward O'Neill - Father Jerrold Robertshaw - James I of England Robert English - Radcliffe Dallas Cairns - Mounteagle Pino Conti - Tresham References External links

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Notable quotes

“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
— Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous statement of Hippocrates, also translated as "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
“... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.”
— Remark as quoted in "Gunpowder Treason and Plot" (1976) by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. It was said in response to one of the lords of the King's Privy Chamber, who had asked what Fawkes intended to do with such a large amount of gunpowder.

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