''The Lash'' is a 1934 British
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Henry Edwards and starring
Lyn Harding
David Llewellyn Harding (12 October 1867 – 26 December 1952), known professionally as Lyn Harding, was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menaci ...
,
John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portray ...
and
Leslie Perrins
Leslie Perrins (7 October 1901 – 13 December 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. After training at RADA, he was on stage from 1922, and in his long career, appeared in well over 60 films.
Hobbies
Perrins and wife Violet w ...
. It was based on a play of the same name by Cyril Campion. A brutish millionaire
horsewhips his dissolute son. The film was made as a
quota quickie
The Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 ('' 17 & 18 Geo. V'') was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament designed to stimulate the declining British film industry. It received Royal Assent on 20 December 1927 and came into force on 1 April 1928.
D ...
by
Twickenham Studios
Twickenham Studios (formerly known as Twickenham Film Studios) is a film studio in St Margarets, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, that is used by various motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Ralph ...
, one of the largest producers of Quota films.
Cast
*
Lyn Harding
David Llewellyn Harding (12 October 1867 – 26 December 1952), known professionally as Lyn Harding, was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menaci ...
- Bronson Haughton
*
John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portray ...
- Arthur Haughton
*
Joan Maude
Joan Maude (16 January 1908 – 28 September 1998) was an English actress, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. She is probably best known for playing the Chief Recorder in the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film '' A Matter of Life and Death''.
Th ...
- Dora Bush
*
Leslie Perrins
Leslie Perrins (7 October 1901 – 13 December 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. After training at RADA, he was on stage from 1922, and in his long career, appeared in well over 60 films.
Hobbies
Perrins and wife Violet w ...
- Alec Larkin
*
Mary Jerrold
Mary Jerrold (4 December 1877 – 3 March 1955) was an English actress. She was married to actor Hubert Harben, and mother of actress Joan Harben and celebrity chef Philip Harben.
She made her London stage debut as Prudence Dering in ''Mary Penn ...
- Margaret Haughton
*
Aubrey Mather
Aubrey Mather (17 December 1885 – 16 January 1958) was an English character actor.
Career
Mather was born in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, and began his career on the stage in 1905. He debuted in London in '' Brewster's Millions'' in ...
- Col. Bush
*
D. J. Williams - Mr. Charles
*
Roy Emerton
Roy Emerton (9 October 1892 – 30 November 1944) was a British film actor.
Earlier in his life, he was a sailor, stoker, docker, railway worker, and miner and served in the First World War. He played in a great number of popular London stage p ...
- Steve
*
Victor Stanley
Victor Stanley (1892–1939) was a British film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''The World, the Flesh, the Devil'' (1932) - Jim Stanger
* '' The Iron Stair'' (1933) - Ben
* ''The Ghost Camera'' (1933) - Albert Sims
* '' Puppets of Fate'' (1933)
* ...
- Jake
References
External links
*
1934 films
Films directed by Henry Edwards
1934 drama films
Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
British drama films
Quota quickies
Films set in London
British black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
{{1930s-UK-film-stub