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The Last Rose of Summer (1920 film)

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The Last Rose of Summer
Directed byAlbert Ward
Written byRoland Pertwee
Hugh Conway (novel)
Produced byG. B. Samuelson
StarringOwen Nares
Daisy Burrell
Release date
1920
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Pride of the Fancy is a British silent motion picture of 1920 directed by Albert Ward, produced by G. B. Samuelson, and starring Owen Nares and Daisy Burrell. A drama, it was written by Roland Pertwee, based on a novel by Hugh Conway.

Plot

In The Last Rose of Summer Oliver Selwyn is a collector who woos Lotus Devine, but not for herself alone. The movie has been called "a melodramatic tale of a spinster betrayed for the sake of a valuable teaset".[1]

Cast

Daisy Burrell in 1919, on the cover of Pictures and Picturegoer

Notes

  1. ^ Kenton Bamford, Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s (1999), p. 8