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]
| City of Play | |
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| 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 |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | Sound (Part-Talkie) English |
Cast
edit- 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
editReferences
editBibliography
edit- Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
External links
edit- City of Play at IMDb
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