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Year: 1929 Production: Gaumont Director: Maurice Elvey Starring: Benita Hume, Jameson Thomas, Basil Gill, James Carew Screenwriter: L'Estrange Fawcett Based on a play by Noel Pemberton-Billing 95 minutes, cut to 69 minues; B/W
This forgotten curiosity, one of the earliest UK sound movies, was quite a big film in its day, when it was seen as a kind of English Metropolis (1926) - a comparison that does not for an instant hold water. Set in the world of 1940 (a Channel tunnel, tv, aeroplanes landing on London skyscrapers), it envisages a tense political situation between United Europe, to which England belongs, and a United America. The Peace League saves the world from war by assassinating the leader of United Europe. The production design is singularly unstriking and the story absurb. |
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