City of Play
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| City of Play | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Denison Clift |
| Written by | Denison Clift Angus MacPhail |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Claude L. McDonnell |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Woolf and Freedman |
Release date |
|
Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | Sound (Part-Talkie) English |
City of Play is a 1929 British part-talkie sound drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Chili Bouchier, Patrick Aherne and Lawson Butt.[1] It was made by Gainsborough Pictures and produced by Michael Balcon. The film featured a few sequences with dialogue and singing while the remaining film used English intertitles along with a musical score and sound effects.[2]
Cast
- Chili Bouchier as Ariel
- Patrick Aherne as Richard von Rolf
- Lawson Butt as Tambourini
- James Carew as Gen. von Rolf
- Harold Huth as Arezzi
- Andrews Engelmann as Colonel von Lessing
- Leila Dresner as Zelah
- Olaf Hytten as Schulz
See also
References
Bibliography
- Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
External links
- City of Play at IMDb
 | This article related to a British film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from October 2020
- Use British English from May 2016
- 1929 films
- Template film date with 1 release date
- 1929 drama films
- British drama films
- 1920s English-language films
- Films directed by Denison Clift
- Circus films
- Films about hypnosis
- Films set in Germany
- Transitional sound drama films
- British black-and-white films
- 1920s British films
- Part-talkie films
- All stub articles
- 1920s British film stubs