'Ooh, lumme - we don't get much money, but we do see life. Ohh, that's the stuff - fire and passion!' (Shadows, 1931)
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Family Business 1984
There are always so many things to rediscover in a comprehensive retrospective. A lost friend can be one of them.
Looking down the list of supporting shorts for this Sunday's BFI screening of Chantal Akerman's Les Années 80 (1983), I came across an even rarer title, her 18-minute Family Business (1984). Reading through the sparse bits of available information about it, I was astonished to stumble upon a familiar name in its cast list: Lloyd Cohn. Surely it couldn't be…
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Collision 1932
Registered Br 6924, 27th January 1932
Film Pictorial, 16th July 1932:
If you don't see many films and you are not difficult to please, you might get a thrill out of this crook drama. But really, in this year of grace, 1932, this might have been so much better.
[Spoilers: The following contains a full plot outline of Collision, for which no film materials are known to survive and which is therefore presumed lost.]
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Service for Ladies 1932
Registered Br 6902, 18th January 1932
Dialogue from Service for Ladies, cut from the shortened American version, retitled Reserved for Ladies:
Mr Robertson: Say, what do you want with that young man you've invited to dinner?
Sylvia Robertson: Sir William?
Mr Robertson: Yes.
Sylvia: Oh - I think I'll get him to propose to me.
Mr Robertson: Eh, you're in love with him?
Sylvia [chuckling]: You dear old Victorian.
Mr Robertson: Well, do you want to marry him?
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Condemned to Death 1932
Registered Br 6919, 23rd January 1932
Production still caption, Picturegoer, 28th November 1931:
Walter Forde 'gets down to it' while producing the new British film, Jack o' Lantern. The central object of interest is Arthur Wontner.
[Spoilers: The following contains a complete plot outline of the surviving, severely cut French dub of Condemned to Death, for which no viable film materials from the original version are known to exist. However, many key plot details - including the final reveal -…
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