The Yellow Mask

The Yellow Mask
Directed by Harry Lachman
Produced by John Maxwell
Written by George Arthurs
Harry Lachman (adaptation)
Miles Malleson (dialogue)
Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation)
Val Valentine (screenplay)
Based on play by Edgar Wallace
Starring Lupino Lane
Dorothy Seacombe
Warwick Ward
Wilfred Temple
Music by John Reynders
Cinematography Walter Blakeley
Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by Edward B. Jarvis
Production
company
Distributed by Wardour Films (UK)
Release dates
  • 1930 (1930)
Running time
76 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.[1] A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the Edgar Wallace play The Traitor's Gate. [2]

Cast

Critical reception

Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity." [3] while The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning." [4]

References

  1. "The Yellow Mask". BFI.
  2. "Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  3. "THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald". eBay.
  4. "Movie Review - - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation. - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. line feed character in |title= at position 15 (help)


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