Dawn (1928 film)

Dawn
Directit bi	Herbert Wilcox
Produced bi	Herbert Wilcox
Written bi	Reginald Berkeley (play) ; Robert Cullen ; Herbert Wilcox
Starnin	Sybil Thorndike; Ada Bodart; Gordon Craig ; Marie Ault
Cinematography	Bernard Knowles
Production; company	British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributit bi	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date	1 Mairch 1928
Rinnin time	90 meen.
Kintra	Unitit Kinrick
Leid	Inglis

Dawn is a 1928 Breetish seelent war film directit bi Herbert Wilcox an starnin Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig an Marie Ault. It wis producit bi Wilcox for his British & Dominions Film Corporation.

Based on a play bi Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story o Warld War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nourice wha risked her ain life bi rescuin Breetish preesoners o war frae the Germans. Whan Cavell wis fanged an sentenced tae be executit, it sparked internaitional ootrage, even frae neutral naitions.

Ane o the maist controversial Breetish films o the 1920s, Dawn wis censored acause o whit objectors considert its brutal depiction o warfare an anti-German sentiments. Pressure wis exertit bi baith the German ambassador an the Breetish Furrin Secretar Austen Chamberlain tae prevent the film bein passed for exhibition.^[1]

Wilcox retoured tae the subject in 1939 wi Nurse Edith Cavell starnin Anna Neagle.

Cast[eedit | eedit soorce]

(in Inglis)

Sybil Thorndike - Nurse Edith Cavell
Ada Bodart - Hersel
Gordon Craig - Philippe Bodart
Marie Ault - Mme. Rappard
Mickey Brantford - Jacques Rappard
Mary Brough - Mme. Pitou
Richard Worth - Jean Pitou - Bargekeeper
Colin Bell - Widow Deveaux
Dacia Deane - Mme. Deveaux's dochter
Cecil Barry - Col. Schultz
Frank Perfitt - Gen. von Zauberzweig
Haddon Mason - German A.P.M.
Maurice Braddell - British airman
Edward O'Neill - Lutheran priest
Griffith Humphreys - President of the court martial
Edward Sorley - German soldier

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ Low pp. 66−68

Bibliography[eedit | eedit soorce]

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918−1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

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[1] Low pp. 66−68

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v t e The films o Herbert Wilcox
1920s	Chu-Chin-Chow (1923) Southern Love (1924) Decameron Nights (1924) Nell Gwyn (1926) London (1926) Mumsie (1927) Tip Toes (1927) Madame Pompadour (1927) The Only Way (1927) Dawn (1928) The Bondman (1929) The Woman in White (1929)
1930s	The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) The Chance of a Night Time (1931) Carnival (1931) The Blue Danube (1932) Goodnight, Vienna (1932) Money Means Nothing (1932) The King's Cup (1933) The Little Damozel (1933) Bitter Sweet (1933) Yes, Mr Brown (1933) The Queen's Affair (1934) Nell Gwyn (1934) Peg of Old Drury (1935) Three Maxims (1936) London Melody (1937) Limelight (1937) Victoria the Great (1937) Sixty Glorious Years (1938) This'll Make You Whistle (1938) Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
1940s	Irene (1940) No, No, Nanette (1940) Sunny (1941) They Flew Alone (1942) Forever and a Day (1943) Yellow Canary (1943) I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) Piccadilly Incident (1946) The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947) Spring in Park Lane (1948) Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
1950s	Odette (1950) Into the Blue (1950) The Lady with the Lamp (1951) Derby Day (1952) Trent's Last Case (1952) Laughing Anne (1953) Trouble in the Glen (1954) Lilacs in the Spring (1954) King's Rhapsody (1955) My Teenage Daughter (1956) These Dangerous Years (1957) The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) Wonderful Things! (1958) The Lady Is a Square (1959) The Heart of a Man (1959)