Red Pearls

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Red Pearls
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Walter Forde
Written byJ. Randolph James (novel)
Harry Fowler Mear
Sidney Gilliat
Produced by Archibald Nettlefold
Starring Lillian Rich
Frank Perfitt
Arthur Pusey
Frank Stanmore
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited byCulley Forde
Music byPaul Mulder
Production
company
Distributed by Butcher's Film Service
Release date
  • February 1930 (1930-02) [1]
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Red Pearls is a 1930 British silent crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Lillian Rich, Frank Perfitt and Arthur Pusey. [2] It was written by Harry Fowler Mear and Sidney Gilliat based on the novel Nearer! Nearer! by J. Randolph James, [3] and made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton. [4] The film was produced just as the change to sound films was taking place in Britain.

Contents

Premise

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.

Cast

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "Ingenious mystery melodrama which succeeds in holding the interest. It is not as clear in development as it might have been, but the locations of Londen and the South Seas provide a colourful atmosphere which considerably adds to the general effect. ... Frank Perfitt, who admittedly has a difficult role to portray as Marston, is not equal to the demands and considerably overacts. Lilian Rich does not make a particularly attractive heroine as Sylvia, nor does Arthur Pusey display any outstanding ability as the juvenile lead. ... Walter Forde, by telling the story in retrospect, makes it difficult for one to know exactly when one narrative ends and the other begins; this results in the picture being at times a little disjointed. He does, however, possess directorial skill, and succeeds in keeping the mystery well sustained." [5]

References

  1. ↑ Low, Rachael (1985). Film Making in 1930's Britain. HarperCollins. p. 375. ISBN   978-0047910425.
  2. ↑ "Red Pearls". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  3. ↑ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 925. ISBN   9783598114922.
  4. ↑ Wood, Linda (1986). British Films, 1927–1939 (PDF). British Film Institute. p. 67. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Red Pearls". Kine Weekly . 156 (1192): 43. 20 February 1930. ProQuest   2322744732.
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