''The Luck of the Navy '' is a 1927 British silent

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...

directed by

Fred Paul Fred Paul (1880–1967) was a Swiss-born British actor and film director. Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and director in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with ...

and starring

Evelyn Laye Evelyn Laye (née Elsie Evelyn Lay; 10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English actress who was active on the London light opera stage, and later in New York and Hollywood. Her first husband, actor Sonnie Hale, left her for Jessie Ma ...

Henry Victor Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the film silent era, he appeared in numerous film roles in Britain, before emigrating to the US in 1939 where he continued ...

and

Hayford Hobbs Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 - 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Gener ...

. It was an adaptation of the 1919 play '' The Luck of the Navy'' by Mrs Clifford Mills. It was shot at

Cricklewood Studios Cricklewood Studios, also known as the Stoll Film Studios, were British film studios located in Cricklewood, London which operated from 1920 to 1938. Run by Sir Oswald Stoll as the principal base for his newly formed Stoll Pictures, which als ...

.Wood p.63

Cast

as Cynthia Eden *

as Lieutenant Clive Stanton *

as Louis Peel * Robert Cunningham as Admiral Maybridge *

Norma Whalley Norma Whalley (? – 1954) was an Australian theatre and film actress active in the United States and Britain. Biography Whalley was the daughter of Henry Octavius Whalley, a doctor working in Sydney, Australia. During the late 1890s she toured ...

as Mrs Peel *

H. Agar Lyons Harry Agar Lyons (1 April 1878 – 1944) was an Irish-born British actor. He was born in Cork (city), Cork, Ireland in 1878 and died in Wandsworth, London, England in 1944 at age 72. Lyons is best known for playing Fu Manchu in a series of fi ...

as Colonel Dupont *

William Freshman William Freshman (1 November 1902, in Sydney, Australia – 1980 in London, England) was an Australian-born actor, scriptwriter and director. He moved to England as a child and worked in the British film industry, writing over 20 screenplays an ...

as Wing Eden * Basil Griffen as Anna *

Zoe Palmer Zoe Palmer (1903–1983) was a British stage and film actress.Goble p. 234 Selected filmography * ''Walls of Prejudice'' (1920) * ''The Black Tulip'' (1921) * '' The Other Person'' (1921) * '' Was She Guilty?'' (1922) * '' The Luck of the Navy' ...

as Dora Green * H. Saxon-Snell as Francois * Douglas Herald as Joe Briggs *

Wally Patch Walter Sydney Vinnicombe (26 September 1888 – 27 October 1970) was an English actor and comedian. He worked in film, television and theatre. Biography Vinnicombe was born in Willesden, Middlesex and began working on the music hall stages in ...

as Stoker Clark * Burton Craig as Lord Nelson * Joan Langford Reed as Dora - Child

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1927 films 1920s comedy thriller films British films based on plays Films directed by Fred Paul British silent feature films British comedy thriller films Films shot at Cricklewood Studios Seafaring films British black-and-white films 1927 comedy films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent comedy films Silent adventure films Silent thriller films {{UK-silent-comedy-film-stub