The Yellow Mask
The Yellow Mask | |
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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 |
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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
- Lupino Lane - Sam Slipper
- Dorothy Seacombe - Mary Trayne
- Warwick Ward - Li San
- Haddon Mason - Ralph Carn
- Wilfred Temple - John Carn
- Frank Cochrane - Ah-Song
- Wallace Lupino - Steward
- Bill Shine - Sunshine
- Winnie Collins - Molly
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
- ↑ "The Yellow Mask". BFI.
- ↑ "Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ↑ "THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald". eBay.
- ↑ "Movie Review - - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation. - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. line feed character in
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