The Queen Was in the Parlour (film)
The Queen Was in the Parlour | |
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Directed by | Graham Cutts |
Written by | Noël Coward (play) Fanny Carlsen Graham Cutts |
Produced by | Michael Balcon Hermann Fellner Arnold Pressburger Josef Somlo |
Starring | Lili Damita Louis Ralph Paul Richter Harry Liedtke |
Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
Music by | Gustav Gold |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
Release date | April 1927 |
Running time | 7,250 feet[1] |
Countries | United Kingdom Germany |
Languages | Silent English intertitles German intertitles |
The Queen Was in the Parlour is a 1927 Anglo-German silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Lili Damita, Louis Ralph and Paul Richter.[2] It was based on the Noël Coward play The Queen Was in the Parlour. Its German title was Die letzte Nacht.
Production
The film was made as part of an Anglo-German co-production between Gainsborough Pictures and the leading German company UFA. It was shot at UFA's Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.[3] It was the first of several co-productions between Gainsborough and Germans firms.[4]
Cast
- Lili Damita as Nadya
- Louis Ralph as Prince Alex
- Paul Richter as Sabien Pascal
- Harry Liedtke as Prince Keri
- Trude Hesterberg as Herzogin Xenia
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge as General Kish
- Ernő Verebes as King's Adjutant
- Frida Richard as Zana
References
- ^ Low p.432
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/47510
- ^ p.Cook p.36-37
- ^ Cook p.64-65
Bibliography
- Cook, Pam (ed.). Gainsborough Pictures. Casssell, 1997.
- Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
External links
Categories:
- 1927 films
- 1920s drama films
- British drama films
- British films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- British silent feature films
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Graham Cutts
- British films based on plays
- Gainsborough Pictures films
- Films set in Paris
- Films set in a fictional European country
- UFA films
- British black-and-white films
- German black-and-white films
- Silent drama film stubs