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The Last Post (film)
''The Last Post'' is a lost 1929 British silent drama film directed by Dinah Shurey and starring John Longden, Frank Vosper and Alf Goddard. The film was the first (and would turn out to be the only) solo directorial venture by Shurey, who was the only female producer and director working in the British film industry at the time. It also became the main source of a libel action launched by Shurey against the magazine ''Film Weekly''. Plot Identical twin brothers Martin and David have grown up both loving the same girl, Christine. Christine in turn loves Martin, the more stable and easy-going of the two where David is more impulsive and volatile in temperament. The brothers both go off to serve in World War I, where David is badly wounded and sent home to England to recuperate. Despite her love for Martin, Christine agrees to marry David who she feels needs her more. After the war, David becomes increasingly restless and disillusioned with the society he sees around him. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinah Shurey
Dinah Shurey (17 June 1888 – 1963) was a British film producer and director of the late 1920s. She is most famously known for her 1929 film ''The Last Post.'' Additional credits to her name include '' Afraid of Love'' (1925), ''Second to None'' (1926), ''Every Mother's Son (''1926), ''Carry On'' (1927). Shurey often calls upon themes surrounding the British war within her films, tending to take on a more melodramatic narrative style. Early life Born in 1888 into a comfortable middle-class family, Shurey's father Harry was a magazine and penny paper publisher. Some of Edgar Wallace's ''Sanders of the River'' stories first appeared in Harry Shurey's magazine ''The Weekly Tale Teller'' which was published from 8 May 1909 to 29 April 1916 (365 issues). During the First World War, Dinah Shurey worked for the French Red Cross as a canteen worker. Due to overexertion, Shurey was dismissed from duty and sent home.Berki, Bibi. “The Film Society, 1930.” Film International 16, no. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI activities Archive The BFI maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Drama Films
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Films Shot At Cricklewood Studios
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British Black-and-white Films
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Lost British Films
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British Silent Feature Films
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British Drama Films
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1929 Films
The following is an overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1929 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on. * February 1 – ''The Broadway Melody'' is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of ''Broadway Melody'' films that will run until 1940. * February 18 – The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are announced for the year ended August 1, 1928. * March 3 – William Fox announces that he has taken control of Loews Inc., including its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, buying shares from Marcus Loew's widow and sons and Nicholas Schenck for $50 million. The acquisition eventually falls through. * May 16 – The first Academy Awards are distributed at The Hollyw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayback Machine
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BFI 75 Most Wanted
The BFI 75 Most Wanted is a list compiled in 2010 by the British Film Institute of the most sought-after British feature films not held in the BFI National Archive, and classified as "missing, believed lost". The films chosen range from quota quickies and B-movies to lavish prestige productions of their day. The list includes lost works by major directors and those featuring top-name actors; also films that were top box-office successes in their time but have since disappeared, and works that are believed to be historically significant for some aspect of style, technique, subject matter or innovation. BFI National Archive. ''Note: For references and further information for individual films, follow this link then click on the appropriate film name.'' The earliest film on the list dates from 1913, the latest from 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerina Shute
Nerina Shute (17 July 1908 – 20 October 2004) was an English writer and journalist, described by the ''Sunday Times'' as "the amazingly colourful, brilliant and bisexual film critic". Early life Shute was born in Prudhoe, Northumberland. Her father, Cameron Shute, was the ne'er-do-well son of a general, Sir Charles Shute, who had fought at Balaclava and was MP for Brighton from 1874 to 1880. Her racy mother, née Amy Bertha ("Renie") Pepper Stavely, was of a well-to-do family with its seat at Woldhurstlea, near Crawley, West Sussex and was the author of a rip-roaring Edwardian novel ''The Unconscious Bigamist''. She was sedulous in not sleeping with her lovers: she married six of them. The second of these husbands was Nerina’s father. After a childhood overshadowed by her parents’ fast living in London and then Hollywood, in the course of which she sold her first story to ''McClure’s Magazine'' at 16, for $150, she returned to England. There, living in Devon, she soon bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
