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Zero (1928 film)

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Zero
Directed byJack Raymond
Written byLydia Hayward
Based onthe novel Zero by H. Collinson Owen
Produced byJames B. Sloan
StarringStewart Rome
Fay Compton
Jeanne De Casalis
Sam Livesey
Production
company
Film Manufacturing Company
Distributed byFirst National-Pathé Pictures
Release date
  • 1928 (1928)
Running time
8,159 feet[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Zero is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Stewart Rome, Fay Compton and Jeanne De Casalis.[2] Based on the 1927 novel by H. Collinson Owen, it was made at Cricklewood Studios.[3]

Premise

A writer fakes his own death and establishes a new identity in order to live with his mistress, but he returns to his wife when she becomes ill.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Low p.486
  2. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | ZERO (1928)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Zero by Collinson Owen - AbeBooks".

Bibliography

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