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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Cast: Johnston Forbes-Robertson [the stranger], Augusta Haviland [Stasia], Alfred Hickman [Stasia’s father], Germaine Bourville [Stasia’s mother], Ben Graham [Major Tompkins], Grace Stephens [Mrs. Tompkins], Ketty Galanta [Vivian], Robert Fisher [Joe Wright], George LeGuere [Christopher Penny], Sidney M. Goldin [Jape Samuels], Thornton Bastion (Jack Baston) [Harry Lackcom], Ricca Allen [Miss Kite], Dora Mills Adams [Miss De Hooley], Molly Pearson [Slavey]

Herbert Brenon Film Corporation production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Herbert Brenon and George Edwardes-Hall, from the play The Passing of the Third Floor Back by Jerome K. Jerome. Technical direction by George Fitch. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. / Released June 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935).

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 July 2018.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 185 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.