Film

East Is East

1916 · 1h 20m · Drama · Romance

IMDb

6.1

Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on a photographic holiday instead! The conditions of the legacy are that she must spend three years learning to be a lady before she inherits absolutely. 'Vicky' does her best, but she is not happy in high society. Meanwhile her old East End beau Bert accepts a loan from her in order to 'better himself' and starts a highly-successful fish-and-chip shop business. He takes elocution lessons and buys gentleman's clothes in the hopes of aspiring to her hand. But Vicky, who thinks he has deserted her now she is a fine lady, is lonely enough to accept an offer of marriage from her guardian's spendthrift son, and when Bert reads of the engagement in the newspapers he abandons London and goes down to live in Kent where they were once happy together.

Florence Turner

Victoria Vickers

Henry Edwards

Bert Grummett

Ruth Mackay

Mrs. Carrington

W.G. Saunders

Dawson

Edith Evans

Aunt

• Henry EdwardsDirector · Writer

Release date

September 2, 1916

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Drama, Romance