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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
"You can't go in there, there's a play being broadcast."
"I'm looking for Variety?"
"That's eight floors down."
"Yes, but I've just come eight floors up!"
"Then it'll be sixteen floors from where you started."
#death at broadcasting house#1934#british cinema#crime film#reginald denham#val gielgud#eric maschwitz#basil mason#ian hunter#austin trevor#lilian oldland#henry kendall#peter haddon#betty ann davies#jack hawkins#donald wolfit#robert rendel#gordon mcleod#elisabeth welch#hannen swaffer#highly entertaining (if creeky and over egged) inter war crime melodrama‚ but this is also a fascinating record of the earliest days#of the bbc (a little over a decade old at this point‚ and radio broadcasts of the kind featured here had been regularly transmitted for#just 2 years!). one of the most startling revelations? early radio variety shows apparently included dance acts. on the radio. i...#novelty aside this is still a solid little potboiler. Denham really embraces the visual possibilities of his medium (the same can't always#be said for early brit cinema‚ which i always tend to think of as being a bit behind America‚ and certainly behind the europeans).#performances are very of their time but still quite charming‚ and even the comic relief fop character is really quite likeable#fun to spot a Very Baby jack Hawkins as one of the suspects and Donald Wolfit in his screen debut as the detested victim killed off by a#colleague (im sure there were many costars later in his career who envied that possibility‚ Wolfit being infamously difficult and demanding#in later life). a lot of old hokum really‚ but very charming and silly with it.
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Roger Livesey and Lilian Oldland in the Price of Wisdom (1935)
#roger livesey#lilian oldland#New fresh BB Rog#It's not Thursday but I can't wait#The Price of Wisdom#Mailbox miracle 2k17#quality isn't great#but it certainly could be worse#the sound is a bit weird or slightly wonky maybe?
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Trolley advert for The Flag Lieutenant, a 1926 British war film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Henry Edwards, Lilian Oldland and Dorothy Seacombe. It is based on the play The Flag Lieutenant by W.P. Drury.
The above Capitol Theatre poster comes from the Vancouver Sun article by John Mackie seen here:
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vintage-streetcar-posters-evoke-lost-era-of-vaudeville-silent-movies-and-happyland
This film wasn’t actually based on a WWI narrative, but rather is a fictional storyline that focuses on life in the British Navy. It falls in the interwar period.
Here’s the review from the Sun, from June 6, 1927:
Then later during WWII, this film was released in the US:
The Flight Lieutenant is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son (Glenn Ford) against the backdrop of World War II. (with assistance from Wikipedia).
Here’s the review from the Province, September 30, 1942:
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