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1915 silent film directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Prince and the Pauper: novel by Mark Twain · 1972 film by Vadim Gauzner · 1920 film directed by Alexander Korda · Wikimedia set index article

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“If that I could but clothe me in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the crown!”
— Prince Edward; Ch. 2: 'Tom's meeting with the Prince.'
“I pray thee of thy grace believe me, I did but speak the truth, most dread lord; for I am the meanest among thy subjects, being a pauper born, and 'tis by a sore mischance and accident I am here, albeit I was therein nothing blameful. I am but young to die, and thou canst save me with one little word. Oh speak it, sir!”
— Tom Canty to his «father» King Henry VIII; Ch. 5: 'Tom as a patrician.'
“I beseech your good lordship that order be taken to change this law—oh, let no more poor creatures be visited with its tortures.”
— Tom; Ch. 15: 'Tom as King.'
“At long intervals he drew his thumb along the edge of his knife, and nodded his head with satisfaction. "It grows sharper," he said; "yes, it grows sharper. [...] It was his father that did it all. I am but an archangel; but for him I should be pope!"”
— Ch. 20: 'The Prince and the hermit.'
“None believe in me—neither wilt thou. But no matter—within the compass of a month thou shalt be free; and more, the laws that have dishonoured thee, and shamed the English name, shall be swept from the statute books. The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”
— Edward; Ch. 27: 'In prison.'
“What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.”
— King Edward VI; Conclusion: 'Justice and Retribution.'

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The Prince and the Pauper is a lost 1915 American silent adventure film starring Marguerite Clark based on the 1881 novel by Mark Twain. The film was produced by the Famous Players Film Company and was directed by Edwin S. Porter and Hugh Ford.

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Plot

In this Mark Twain story of mistaken identity, Marguerite Clark plays two different young men, the well to do Prince of Wales and a poor boy of the streets.

Cast

Marguerite Clark - Prince Edward/Tom Canty

Robert Broderick - The King

William Barrows - Earl of Hertford

William Sorelle - Miles Hendon

William Frederic - Tom Canty's Father

Alfred Fisher - Father Andrew

Nathaniel Sack -

Edwin Mordant -

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