City of Play

1929 film

  • Chili Bouchier
  • Patrick Aherne
  • James Carew
CinematographyClaude L. McDonnell
Production
company
Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed byWoolf and Freedman
Release date
  • 1 July 1929 (1929-07-01)
Running time
80 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguagesSound (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

  • List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Low p.205

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links

  • City of Play at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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