Cape Forlorn

Cape Forlorn
Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Based on play by Frank Harvey
Starring Fay Compton
Frank Harvey
Ian Hunter
Release date
 1931
Country UK
Language English
Budget £50,000[1]

Cape Forlorn is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter.[2] It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made Le cap perdu and Menschen im Käfig. The film is also known as The Love Storm.

Plot

A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead.

Selected cast

Original play

Cape Forlorn
Written by Frank Harvey
Date premiered Fortune Theatre, London
Place premiered 30 March 1930[3]
Original language English
Setting A lighthouse off the New Zealand coast

The movie was based on a play which premiered in 1930. It was written by Frank Harvey who appeared in the original cast.

Production

Shooting took place in late 1930[4] and it was made in English, French and German.[5]

Release

The film was originally banned in Australia by the censor[6] but this was overturned on appeal after a number of cuts were agreed upon.[7]

Reviews were poor.[8]

Shortly after the film was released in Australia, Harvey appeared in a production of the play at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney.[9] Harvey said this was in part because the film version had so changed his play.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "THE MOVIE WORLD". Bowen Independent. 26, (2195). Queensland, Australia. 6 December 1930. p. 7. Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28642
  3. ↑ ""STRONG MEAT"". The Daily News. Perth: National Library of Australia. 3 April 1930. p. 1 Edition: HOME FINAL EDITION. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "BRITISH FILMS". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 5 December 1930. p. 17. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "UNORTHODOX". The Daily News. Perth: National Library of Australia. 27 March 1931. p. 11 Edition: HOME (FINAL) EDITION. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "FILMS BANNED". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 10 April 1931. p. 9. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  7. ↑ ""CAPE FORLORN."". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 25 April 1931. p. 15. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  8. ↑ "NEW FILMS". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 4 May 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  9. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 18 August 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  10. ↑ ""CAPE FORLORN."". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 31 August 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
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