The Toilers

British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.

1919

0h 50min

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Ronald Colman
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Eric Barker
Jack (as a child)
Manora Thew
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Gwynne Herbert
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John Corrie
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