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All the Sad World Needs

1918 film directed by Hubert Herrick

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ20001083 ↗
Source-derived summary

All the Sad World Needs is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Hubert Herrick and starring Lauri de Frece, Joan Legge and Lennox Pawle.

Cast

Lauri de Frece as Peep O'Day

Joan Legge as Rhoda Grover

Lennox Pawle as George Grover

Adelaide Grace as Miss Flint

Cyprian Hyde as Ernest Hanbury

References

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918–1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “All the Sad World Needs” as 1918 film directed by Hubert Herrick. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1929, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-08. The account is most persuasive where World, Needs and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1918 film directed by Hubert Herrick. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20001083. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1929 and 1971.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow All the Sad World Needs primary sources, All the Sad World Needs archive and World research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “All the Sad World Needs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.