Drama
The Enchanted Cottage
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.
Top Cast
Richard Barthelmess
Oliver Bashforth
May McAvoy
Laura Pennington
Ida Waterman
Mrs. Smallwood
Florence Short
Ethel Bashforth
Alfred Hickman
Rupert Smallwood
Marion Coakley
Beatrice Vaughn
Holmes Herbert
Major Hillgrove
Ethel Wright
Mrs. Minnett
Directed by
John S. Robertson
Production
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CinemaSerf
7/106/6/2022
Richard Barthelmess ("Oliver") returns, seriously wounded, from WWI and after a time with his rather, shall we say overwhelming, family and after watching his childhood sweetheart marry a more able-bodied gentleman, he retreats to a small cottage on their estate where he just wants to be left in peace. His neighbour is a plain and simple woman "Laura" (Mary McCoy), who chats occasionally, hoping to gee him from his melancholy. Initially he is unresponsive, for the most part, until he is threatened by his rather overpowering sister "Ethel" (Florence Short) who decides that she is going to move in with him... Horrified (as any of us would have been, frankly!) but the thought of this prospect, he suggests to "Laura" that they marry and that she move in with him. At this stage in the film, the
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