The Greatest Wish in the World

The Greatest Wish in the World is a 1918 British silent romance film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Bransby Williams, Odette Goimbault and Edward Combermere.^[1] It was adapted from a novel by E. Temple Thurston.

Cast

Bransby Williams - Father O'Leary
Odette Goimbault - Peggy
Edward Combermere - Stephen Gale
Ada King - Mrs. Parfitt
Douglas Munro - Pinches
Gwynne Herbert - Mrs. Gooseberry
Jean Alwyn - Mother Superior
Teddy Arundell
Will Corrie

References

^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/223955

External links

The Greatest Wish in the World at the Internet Movie Database

Cinema of the United Kingdom

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Active	Aardman Animations BBC Films British Lion Films Ealing Studios Elstree Studios Eon Productions Film4 Productions Goldcrest Films Hammer Film Productions HandMade Films London Films Palace Pictures The Pinewood Studios Group (Pinewood Studios Shepperton Studios) S4C Films Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden Wimbledon Studios Working Title Films

Former	Amicus Productions Bryanston Films (UK) Denham Film Studios Gainsborough Pictures Rank Organisation Warwick Films

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The films of Maurice Elvey

1910s	Popsy Wopsy (1913) Maria Marten (1913) The White Feather (1914) Her Luck in London (1914) The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914) The Idol of Paris (1914) The Suicide Club (1914) Honeymoon for Three (1915) There's Good in Everyone (1915) Gilbert Dying to Die (1915) Home (1915) Her Nameless Child (1915) Love in a Wood (1915) From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915) Gilbert Gets Tiger-Itis (1915) Midshipman Easy (1915) Fine Feathers (1915) Florence Nightingale (1915) A Will of Her Own (1915) Charity Ann (1915) When Knights Were Bold (1916) Driven (1916) Mother Love (1916) Meg the Lady (1916) Esther (1916) Trouble for Nothing (1916) Vice Versa (1916) The Princess of Happy Chance (1916) The King's Daughter (1916) The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917) The Grit of a Jew (1917) Smith (1917) Justice (1917) The Gay Lord Quex (1917) Flames (1917) Mary Girl (1917) The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) Hindle Wakes (1918) Nelson (1918) The Greatest Wish in the World (1918) Goodbye (1918) Adam Bede (1918) Comradeship (1919) God's Good Man (1919) Mr. Wu (1919) The Elusive Pimpernel (1919) Quinneys (1919) The Rocks of Valpre (1919) Keeper of the Door (1919) The Swindler (1919) Dombey and Son (1919)

1920s	The Tavern Knight (1920) The Victory Leaders (1920) A Question of Trust (1920) At the Villa Rose (1920) The Hundredth Chance (1920) The Amateur Gentleman (1920) Bleak House (1920) Innocent (1921) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1921) A Gentleman of France (1921) A Romance of Wastdale (1921) The Fruitful Vine (1921) Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922) A Debt of Honour (1922) Running Water (1922) Man and His Kingdom (1922) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1922) Don Quixote (1923) Guy Fawkes (1923) The Royal Oak (1923) The Wandering Jew (1923) The Sign of Four (1923) The Passionate Friends (1923) Sally Bishop (1924) Henry, King of Navarre (1924) Slaves of Destiny (1924) The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924) My Husband's Wives (1924) Folly of Vanity (1924) Curlytop (1924) She Wolves (1925) Every Man's Wife (1925) The Woman Tempted (1926) The Flag Lieutenant (1926) Human Law (1927) Roses of Picardy (1927) Hindle Wakes (1927) The Flight Commander (1927) Quinneys (1927) Mademoiselle Parley Voo (1928) Balaclava (1928) Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1928) Palais de danse (1928) You Know What Sailors Are (1928) The Glad Eye (1929) High Treason (1929)

1930s	School for Scandal (1930) Potiphar's Wife (1931) Sally in Our Alley (1931) A Honeymoon Adventure (1931) Frail Women (1932) The Marriage Bond (1932) The Water Gipsies (1932) Diamond Cut Diamond (1932) The Lodger (1932) The Lost Chord (1933) I Lived with You (1933) This Week of Grace (1933) The Wandering Jew (1933) Lily of Killarney (1934) Love, Life and Laughter (1934) Princess Charming (1934) Soldiers of the King (1934) My Song for You (1934) Road House (1934) In a Monastery Garden (1935) Heat Wave (1935) The Clairvoyant (1935) The Tunnel (1935) Spy of Napoleon (1936) Man in the Mirror (1936) A Romance in Flanders (1937) Change for a Sovereign (1937) Who Killed John Savage? (1937) Melody and Romance (1937) Lightning Conductor (1938) Who Goes Next? (1938) The Return of the Frog (1938) A People Eternal (1939) Sword of Honour (1939) Sons of the Sea (1939)

1940s	Under Your Hat (1940) The Spider (1940) For Freedom (1940) Room for Two (1940) Salute John Citizen (1942) The Lamp Still Burns (1943) Strawberry Roan (1944) Medal for the General (1944) Beware of Pity (1946)

1950s	The Third Visitor (1951) The Late Edwina Black (1951) My Wife's Lodger (1952) The Great Game (1953) Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953) The Harassed Hero (1954) The Happiness of Three Women (1954) What Every Woman Wants (1954) The Gay Dog (1954) You Lucky People (1955) Room in the House (1955) Fun at St. Fanny's (1956) House of Blackmail (1956) Dry Rot (1956) Second Fiddle (1957) Stars in Your Eyes (1957)