Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
List of films
| Title : | The Great Hunger Duel |
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| Writer : | Kenneth Graeme and Derwent Nicol |
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| Production : | Anchor Films Ltd. |
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| Producer : | |
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| Director : | Kenneth Graeme |
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| Studios : | Riverside Studios, Kew |
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| Released : | September 1922 |
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| Distributor : | |
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| Cast : | Kenneth Graeme as Mr Pusher Long |
| Sydney Folker as The Lover | |
| Clive Tristi as The Rival | |
| Dawn Meredith as The Girl | |
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| Storyline : | Two young men in a boarding house in Bloomsbury compete for the hand of an heiress as to whom should abstain from food for the longer. |
| A sensation is created in which the Press agents overshadow their every action, until one of the parties breaks the fast in a furious descent upon | |
| the victuals in the kitchen. It then transpires that compressed tablets, which combine meals in a tabloid form, have sustained life in the pair. | |
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| Information : | Mentioned with photograph in Kinematograph Weekly - 21 July 1921 |
| Storyline and cast in Kinematograph Weekly - 11 May 1922 | |
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| Notes : | Two reel film. |
| Second film of twelve in the 'Mr Pusher Long' series. It is not known if Sydney had any involvement with these others. |