Please note that this screening is at The Barony Theatre
Rare screening of the romantic drama voted “Best British feature of 1928”, and starring “Britain’s handsomest screen actor” Ivor Novello.
Matinee idol-playwright-composer Novello followed his success in Hitchcock’s The Lodger and Downhill the year before with this performance as a young composer whose hasty marriage flounders when the affection between him and the young daughter of his mentor blossoms into a desperately passionate affair.
Best known as the wife and collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville was pregnant with their daughter when she co-wrote this fine film adaptation of the best-selling and controversial source novel. Considered lost for decades, this important jigsaw-piece from Reville’s distinguished career was found, thanks to the 1992 ‘Missing Believed Lost’ British Film Institute call to archives and collectors round the world to check their holdings in search of elusive British films.
Dir. Adrian Brunel | UK | 1928 | N/C 12A | 1h 50m
With: Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton, Frances Doble, Mary Clare
Performing live: Mike Nolan (piano)
Introduced by Dr Josephine Botting
Screening courtesy of Photoplay and BFI National Archive
Online programme notes by Dr Josephine Botting (Curator of Fiction, BFI National Archive)
CONTENT ADVISORY: Contains adolescent sexuality, bear dancing, parental death, death
Saturday, 15 Mar 25 at 19:30 p.m.
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