The Yellow Mask
| The Yellow Mask | |
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| Directed by | Harry Lachman |
| Produced by | John Maxwell |
| Written by |
George Arthurs Harry Lachman (adaptation) Miles Malleson (dialogue) Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation) Val Valentine (screenplay) |
| Based on | novel by Edgar Wallace |
| Starring |
Lupino Lane Dorothy Seacombe Warwick Ward Wilfred Temple |
| Music by | John Reynders |
| Cinematography |
Walter Blakeley Claude Friese-Greene |
| Edited by | Edward B. Jarvis |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Yellow Mask is a 1931 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.[1] A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel The Traitor's Gate.[2]
Cast
- Lupino Lane as Sam Slipper
- Dorothy Seacombe as Mary Trayne
- Warwick Ward as Li San
- Haddon Mason as Ralph Carn
- Wilfred Temple as John Carn
- Frank Cochrane as Ah-Song
- Wallace Lupino as Steward
- Bill Shine (actor) as Sunshine
- Winnie Collins as Molly
Critical reception
Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity." [3] while The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning." [4]
References
- ↑ "The Yellow Mask". British Film Institute. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald". eBay. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "Movie Review - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation". The New York Times. 8 December 1930. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
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