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Half A Truth
''Half a Truth'' is a 1922 British silent crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Margaret Hope, Lawford Davidson and Miles Mander.Murphy p.294 It was based on a 1911 novel by Eliza Humphreys writing as Rita. Cast * Margaret Hope as Virginia * Lawford Davidson as Chris Kennaway * Miles Mander as Marquis Sallast * Norma Whalley as Lady Lucille Altamont * Irene Rooke as Octavia Madison * Percy Standing Percy Standing (26 October 1882 – 17 September 1950) was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was born in Lambeth, London and died in Placer County, California. Selected filmography ... as Sir Richard Madison * Phillip Simmons as Barry Connell * Stella Wood-Sims as Doreen Madison References Bibliography * Murphy, Robert. ''Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion''. BFI, 2006. External links * 1922 films 1922 crime films British silent feature films British crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinclair Hill
Sinclair Hill (10 June 1896 – 6 March 1945) was a British film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894. He was awarded an OBE for his services to film. Hill was employed by Stoll Pictures in the 1920s and Gainsborough Pictures in the 1930s. Filmography * ''At the Villa Rose (1920 film), At the Villa Rose'' (1920) * ''The Hundredth Chance'' (1920) * ''The Tidal Wave'' (1920) * ''The Tavern Knight'' (1920) * ''A Question of Trust'' (1920) * ''The Place of Honour'' (1921) * ''The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (film), The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown'' (1921) * ''The Nonentity'' (1921) * ''The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square'' (1922) * ''The Experiment (1922 film), The Experiment'' (1922) * ''Half a Truth'' (1922) * ''Petticoat Loose'' (1922) * ''The Truants (film), The Truants'' (1922) * ''Open Country (film), Open Country'' (1922) * ''Expiation (film), Expiation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *''The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *''The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie Prevost * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white Films
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Films Shot At Cricklewood Studios
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoll Pictures Films
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Films Based On British Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Sinclair Hill
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crime Films
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British Silent Feature Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ... (1707– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Crime Films
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Percy Standing
Percy Standing (26 October 1882 – 17 September 1950) was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was born in Lambeth, London and died in Placer County, California. Selected filmography * '' His Wife's Child'' (1913) * ''Unto the Third Generation'' (1913) * ''The Final Judgment'' (1915) * '' Life Without Soul'' (1915) * ''The Fall of a Nation'' (1916) * ''Her Fighting Chance'' (1917) * ''My Four Years in Germany'' (1918) * ''To the Highest Bidder'' (1918) * ''Every Mother's Son'' (1918) * '' The Song of the Soul'' (1918) * '' Everybody's Girl'' (1918) * '' The Captain's Captain'' (1919) * ''Bonds of Love'' (1919) * ''A Modern Salome'' (1920) * '' Sheer Bluff'' (1921) * '' The Great Day'' (1921) * '' Appearances'' (1921) * '' The Mystery Road'' (1921) * '' Half a Truth'' (1922) * ''A Gipsy Cavalier'' (1922) * '' Fires of Fate'' (1923) * '' The Harbour Lights'' (1923) * ''The Desert Sheik'' (1924) * ''Harmony Heaven '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Humphreys
Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys (14 June 1850 – 1 January 1938) (born Gollan) was an English novelist. Biography Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan was born at Gollanfield in Inverness-shire, the daughter of John Gollan, a Scottish businessman and his wife, the daughter of the manager of the Bank of Bengal. Her father travelled extensively, visiting India and Australia. Eliza received little formal education, but her talent for story writing was apparent at an early age. She used her experience of Australia to write a semi-autobiographical novel ''Sheba'' in 1889, using the pen-name ‘Rita’. Another novel, ''Episodes'', was originally published using the pen-name 'E. Jayne Gilbert.' Eliza was married twice: first to the Anglo-German musician Karl Booth, with whom she had three sons. This unhappy marriage later provided Eliza with material for four novels ''Saba Macdonald'' (1906) ''The Grandmothers'' (1927), ''The Wand’ring Darling'' (1928) and ''Jean and Jeanette'' (1929). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
