Cape Forlorn

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Cape Forlorn
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Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Written by Victor Kendall
Based on Cape Forlorn by Frank Harvey
Produced byEwald André Dupont
Starring
Cinematography Walter Blakeley
Jack E. Cox
Claude Friese-Greene
Edited byA.C. Hammond
Music by John Reynders
Production
company
Distributed by Wardour Films
Release date
  • 8 January 1931 (1931-01-08)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£50,000 [1]

Cape Forlorn is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter. [2] It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made Le cap perdu and Menschen im Käfig . The film is also known as The Love Storm.

Contents

It was based on a stage play by Harvey.

Plot

A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead.

Cast

Production

Shooting took place in late 1930 [3] and it was made in English, French and German. [4]

Release

The film was originally banned in Australia by the censor [5] but this was overturned on appeal after a number of cuts were agreed upon. [6]

Reviews were poor. [7]

Shortly after the film was released in Australia, Harvey appeared in a production of the play at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney. [8] Harvey said this was in part because the film version had so changed his play. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "THE MOVIE WORLD". Bowen Independent . Vol. 26, no. 2195. Queensland, Australia. 6 December 1930. p. 7. Retrieved 27 August 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ BFI.org
  3. ↑ "BRITISH FILMS". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 5 December 1930. p. 17. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "UNORTHODOX". The Daily News . Perth: National Library of Australia. 27 March 1931. p. 11 Edition: HOME (FINAL) EDITION. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "FILMS BANNED". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 10 April 1931. p. 9. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  6. ↑ ""CAPE FORLORN."". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 25 April 1931. p. 15. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  7. ↑ "NEW FILMS". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 4 May 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  8. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 18 August 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  9. ↑ ""CAPE FORLORN."". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 31 August 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
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