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- BFI identifier25801
- Date1930 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisComedy. A drunkard's daughter marries the son of a marquise who is then presumed to have died during the war. (Synopsis)
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- Credits
- CastHermione Baddeley (Polly Eccles)
Edward Chapman (Sam Gerridge)
Nora Swinburne (Esther Eccles)
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Title
Caste (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/0369-EE3A-6BD9-8DA3-B10A-ACategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsCaste - Comedy drama. The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action (in WWI) On receiving the news, she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws Director: Campbell Gullan; script: Michael Powell based on the novel by T.W. Robertson Cast: Hermione Baddeley, Nora Swinburne, Alan Napier In 'A Life in Movies' Powell recalls 'Although I was actually co-director of the film, 'Gullie, deferring to me in everything to do with the camera, I don't remember that I was credited with anything but the screenplay...I encouraged Geoff Faithfull, the resident Nettlefold cameraman, to light each face to bring out its character. This was old stuff in silent movies, but new in talkies, where dialogue directors, not knowing what else to do, tended to line actors up in stage positions and stage moves' Powell was muted in his opinion of the finished film 'CASTE had been shown and judged acceptable for a British effort, although I can't help suspecting that the public shared my opinion of the old fossil. Still, nobody had lost money' - MLP-1-1-13
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