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The Tavern Knight
1947 cover
Author Rafael Sabatini
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
adventure
Publication date
1904
Media typePrint

The Tavern Knight is a 1904 historical adventure novel written by the British-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. It is set during the English Civil Wars.

Film adaptation

In 1920, it was turned into a film, The Tavern Knight, directed by Maurice Elvey [1] made by Britain's largest studio of the silent era, Stoll Pictures. A proposed silent version by Warner Brothers was to star John Barrymore in 1927 but instead the Manon Lescaut story was substituted under the title When a Man Loves.

References

  1. ^ Goble p.403

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.