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Dick Turpin's Ride to York is a 1922 British historical silent film drama directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Isobel Elsom and Cecil Humphreys. It was the first feature-length film of the story of the famous 18th-century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary 200 mi (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on ...
Mention the name of Turpin to most people, and they will tell you he was a daring and dashing rogue who famously rode this trip of two hundred miles on his faithful mare, Black Bess, in less than fifteen hours. In so doing, Turpin actually got to York before news of his misdemeanours in London.
He is also known for a fictional 200-mile (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
Dick Turpin's Ride to York: Directed by Maurice Elvey. With Matheson Lang, Isobel Elsom, Cecil Humphreys, Norman Page. A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
- Maurice Elvey
- 1922-09
- Adventure, Drama
- 80
22 de dic. de 2022 · British History. In 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Rookwood featured the highwayman Dick Turpin undertaking a 200 mile overnight ride from Kent to York to establish an alibi. The fact this ride had been done by someone else 30 years before Turpin was born was neither here nor there - the story struck a chord with the public.
One of Dick Turpin’s great journeys from London to York is commemorated in the following ballad by Alfred Noyes: The daylight moon looked quietly down. Through the gathering dusk on London town.
His story became linked in print with a legendary ride from London to York to establish an alibi, a tale previously attributed to the highwayman William Nevison. This fictional version was further established when it was included in an 1834 bestseller called Rockwood, in which the author Harrison Ainsworth added a new twist: that Turpin’s ...
