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Film Details - British International Pictures , 1932
Producers:
Norman Walker.
Production Companies:
British International Pictures.
Director of Photography:
Claude Friese-Greene.
Editors:
Sam Simmonds.
Music:
Idris Lewis.
Cast:
Primary cast members included Henry Kendall (Sir William Normand), Heather Angel (Rosemary Lannick), Nora Swinburne (Diana Trenchard), Sam Livesey (Dave Lannick), Moore Marriott (Tom Turtle), Louise Tinsley (Deborah Turtle), Helen Ferrers (Mrs Priddy), Sam Wilkinson (Noah), A. Bromley Davenport (Lord Blagden), Toni Bruce (Lady Blagden), and David Hawthorne (George Jelby).
Additional cast members included John Burch, Lola Duncan, Roddy Hughes, Quentin McPhearson, and Anita Sharp-Bolster.
Release Dates:
Premiered on 5 May 1932 (London).
Broader British release on 8 August 1932.
Opened in Australia (Melbourne) on 5 August 1932, under special arrangement with Hoyts Theatres and British Empire Films.
Location:
- Filmed on location in Sussex (in addition to studio work). Much mention was made in contemporary newspapers of this film being the first to make use of the British landscape on screen; some reports compared it favourably with contemporary Russian film (not yet, in the 1920s, subject to tight state control and therefore notably innovative).
Settings:
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Sussex,
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