Breakers Ahead (1935 film)

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Breakers Ahead
Directed byAnthony Gilkison
Written byAnthony Gilkison
Produced by Fraser Foulsham
Starring Barry Livesey
Roddy Hughes
Cicely Oates
Music by Charles Cowlrick
Hubert Bath
Production
company
Anglo-Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed byReunion Films
Release date
February 1935
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Breakers Ahead is a 1935 British drama film directed by Anthony Gilkison and starring Barry Livesey, Roddy Hughes and Cicely Oates. [1] It was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie and is also known by the alternative title The Lady of Pendower. [2] It included scenes of Cornish wrestling featuring Francis Gregory.

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Synopsis

In Cornwall two fishermen are bitter rivals. One unsuccessfully tries to drown another. However he later redeems himself by saving the other during a storm at the cost of his own life.

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References

  1. Wood p.81
  2. Chibnall p.282
  3. Cornish wrestling in Lady of Pendower, Kinematograph Weekly, 28 June 1934, p37-38.

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