''A South Sea Bubble'' is a 1928 British
silent comedy
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adventure film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...
directed by
T. Hayes Hunter and starring
Ivor Novello,
Benita Hume
Benita Hume (14 October 1907 – 1 November 1967) was an English theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1925 and 1955.
Life and career
She was married to film actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958 ...
and
Alma Taylor. The screenplay concerns a group of adventurers who head to the
Pacific Ocean
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to hunt for buried treasure. It was made at
Islington Studios
Islington Studios, often known as Gainsborough Studios, were a British film studio located on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London between 1919 and 1949. The studi ...
.
[Wood p.66]
Cast
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Ivor Novello as Vernon Winslow
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Benita Hume
Benita Hume (14 October 1907 – 1 November 1967) was an English theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1925 and 1955.
Life and career
She was married to film actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958 ...
as Averil Rochester
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Alma Taylor as Mary Ottery
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Annette Benson
Annette Benson (1895–1965) was a British film actress. She was a leading lady of British silent films of the 1920s, appearing in ''Confetti'' with Jack Buchanan and ''Downhill'' with Ivor Novello. She also featured in several French and German ...
as Lydia la Rue
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Sydney Seaward as William Carpenter
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S. J. Warmington as Frank Sullivan
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Ben Field
Ben Field (1876–1939) was a British actor.
Partial filmography
* ''Les cloches de Corneville'' (1917) - Iolo
* ''The Face at the Window'' (1920) - Peter Pottlebury
* ''The Bachelor's Club'' (1921) - Peter Parker
* '' Little Miss Nobody'' ...
as Isinglass
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Harold Huth
Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer.
Biography Early life
He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee.
Fo ...
as Pirate
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John F. Hamilton as Tony Gates
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Mary Dibley
Mary Dibley (21 February 1883 in London – 11 September 1968) was a British film actress. She was married to the actor Gerald Ames.
Selected filmography
* '' The Christian'' (1915)
* '' The Shulamite'' (1915)
* '' The Folly of Desire'' (1915)
* ...
as Olive Barbary
References
Bibliography
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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1928 films
1920s adventure comedy films
Films directed by T. Hayes Hunter
British adventure comedy films
British silent feature films
Islington Studios films
Gainsborough Pictures films
British black-and-white films
1928 comedy films
1920s English-language films
1920s British films
Silent adventure comedy films
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The below is a transcription from a ship's manifest and relates to the making of the film "A South Sea Bubble";
Vessel; Jan Pieterszoon Coen (Nederland Royal Mail Line)
Departed; 4th February 1928
From; Southampton
Destination; Algiers (and onwards)
On the passenger list in 1st Class were;
Mr. Sydney Sidmer Seaward as Actor
Mr. William John Hamilton as Actor
Mr. Stanley James Warmington as Actor
Mr. Benjamin Arthur Field as Actor
Mr. Robert Holmes as Actor
Mrs. Benita Siepmann as Actress (Professionally known as Benita Hume) sic, as on page
Mrs. Lilian Ames as Actress (Professionally known as Mary Dibley) sic, as on page
Mrs. Kathleen Lenzer as Actress (professionally known as Annette Benson) - sic, as on page
Mrs. Violet Weinstein as Actress (this entry was struck through)
Miss Alma Taylor as Film Artist
Mr. James Graham Kelly as Assistant Film Director
Mr. John Henry Morley as Camera Mechanic
Mr. Richard George Wilson as Cinematographer
Mr. John Charles Ramsay as Property Master
Mr. Reginald Ernest Enckell Beck as Assistant Camera Man
Ivor Novello as Musical Composer of 11 Aldwych, London, WC2
William Lloyd Charles Williams as Private Secretary of 11 Aldwych, London, WC2