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Mr. Meeson’s Will
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Frederick Sullivan

Cast: Florence La Badie [Augusta Smithers], Justus D. Barnes [Mr. Meeson], Bert Delaney [Eustace Meeson], Ethyle Cooke [Lady Holmhurst], Dorothy Benham [Dickie Holmhurst], Lawrence Swinburne [Mr. Tombey], Charles S. Gould (S. Charles Gould), Samuel Niblack (Samuel N. Niblack)

Thanhouser Film Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Than-O-Play]. / From the novel Mr. Meeson’s Will by H. Rider Haggard. Presented by Edwin Thanhouser. / No copyright registration. Released 6 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as The Grasp of Greed (1916).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 18 March 2012.

References: Website-IMDb; Website-Thanhouser.