Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
| Title : | The English Rose |
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| Writer : | Adapted by Paul Rooff from an original play by Robert Buchanan & George R.Sims |
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| Production : | British Standard Film Productions Ltd. |
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| Producer : | John Robyns |
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| Director : | Fred Paul |
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| Studios : | Barker's Studios, Ealing |
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| Released : | December 1920 |
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| Distributor : | Whincup |
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| Cast : | Fred Paul as Father Michael |
| Humberston Wright as Captain MacDonnell | |
| Sydney Folker as Harry O'Malley | |
| Mary Morton | |
| Jack Raymond | |
| Amy Brandon Thomas as Rose Kingston | |
| George Turner | |
| Clifford Desborough | |
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| Storyline : | Harry O’Malley is obliged to sell his ancestral home, which is bought by Sir Philip Kingston, a self-made man, with a beautiful daughter, |
| Rose, with whom Harry falls in love. Captain MacDonnell, Sir Philip’s secretary, hopes to marry Rose in order to cover up his own defalcations. | |
| Sir Philip discovers his true character and dismisses him. MacDonnell shoots Sir Philip, and contrives to implicate Harry, who is arrested and found guilty | |
| by the Coroner’s Jury. MacDonnell’s accomplice makes a confession, which clears Harry. MacDonnell is arrested, and the young lovers are united. | |
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| Information : | Background information in The Bioscope - 19 February 1920 |
| Background information in Kinematograph Weekly - 26 February 1920 | |
| Background information in The Bioscope - 18 March 1920 | |
| British Standard Films evolution in Kinematograph Weekly - 1 April 1920 | |
| Background information in The Bioscope - 10 April 1920 | |
| Advertisement in Kinematograph Weekly - 15 April 1920 | |
| Cast details in The Bioscope - 1 July 1920 | |
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| Notes : | First film by newly formed British Standard Films. |
| Film length 6,000 feet. | |
| Release date given as 17 March 1924 in Kinematograph Weekly - 28 February 1924. | |
| Release date given as 17 March 1924 in Kinematograph Weekly - 6 March 1924. |