Milestones (1920)
1h
Running Time
September 9, 1920Release Date
Plot.
1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.
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Cast & Crew.
Lewis Stone
John Rhead
Alice Hollister
Gertrude Rhead
Gertrude Robinson
Emily Rhead
Harvey Clark
Sam Sibley
Mary Alden
Rose Sibley
May Foster
Nancy Sibley
Boyd Irwin
Arthur Preece
Jack Donovan
Richard Sibley Jr
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 9, 1920
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
19th century
Wiki.
Milestones is a 1920 American silent historical drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Lewis Stone, Alice Hollister, and Gertrude Robinson. It is an adaptation of the 1912 West End play Milestones by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock. It is a saga of a British upper-class family from the 1860s to the present.