Long Lost Father
Appearance
Long Lost Father | |
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Directed by | Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Screenplay by | Dwight Taylor |
Produced by | Merian C. Cooper Kenneth Macgowan |
Starring | John Barrymore Helen Chandler |
Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
Edited by | Paul Weatherwax |
Music by | Alberto Columbo Max Steiner Harold Adamson Roy Webb |
Distributed by | RKO |
Release date | January 19, 1934 |
Running time | 7 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Long Lost Father is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray, and Doris Lloyd. It was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack.[1][2] It was based on a novel by the British writer Gladys Stern.
Plot summary
A wastrel father and his long-abandoned daughter find themselves working in the same London nightclub. Gradually they come to bond and repair their broken relationship.
Cast
- John Barrymore as Carl Bellairs
- Helen Chandler as Lindsey Lane
- Donald Cook as Bill Strong
- Alan Mowbray as Sir Tony Gelding
- Claude King as The Inspector
- E. E. Clive as Spot Hawkins
- Reginald Sharland as Lord Vivian
- Ferdinand Gottschalk as The Lawyer
- Natalie Moorhead as Phyllis Mersey-Royds
- Doris Lloyd as The Blonde Widow
- Phyllis Barry as Party Guest
- Tempe Pigott as Mrs. Gamp - The Old Woman
- Herbert Bunston as the Bishop
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40 by The American Film Institute c.1993
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Long Lost Father