Adam Bede is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Bransby Williams, Ivy Close and Malvina Longfellow.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1859 novel Adam Bede by George Eliot.

Plot summary

A squire's grandson saves a farmer's niece from the charge of murdering her bastard baby.

Cast

• Bransby Williams — Adam Bede
• Ivy Close — Hetty Sorrel
• Malvina Longfellow — Dinah Morris
• Gerald Ames — Arthur Donnithome
• Claire Pauncefort -— Aunt Lydia
• Inez Bensusan — Sarah Thorne
• Charles Stanley — Seth Bede
• Ralph Forster — Squire