Victor Saville

Рождение : 1895-09-25, Birmingham, England, UK

Смерть : 1979-05-08

История

Victor Saville (25 September 1895, Birmingham, England – 8 May 1979, London) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962. He produced his first film, Woman to Woman, with Michael Balcon in 1923, and on the back of its success produced pictures for the veteran director Maurice Elvey, including the classic British silent Hindle Wakes (1927). His first picture as director was The Arcadians (1927). In 1929 he and Balcon worked together again on a talkie remake of Woman to Woman for Balcon's company, Gainsborough Pictures. This time Saville directed it. From 1931, as Gainsborough Pictures and the Gaumont British Picture Corporation joined forces, Saville produced a string of comedies, musicals and dramas for Gainsborough and Gaumont-British, including the popular Jessie Matthews pictures. In 1937, he left to set up his own production company, Victor Saville Productions, and made three pictures for Alexander Korda's London Films at Denham studios. As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood. When the war broke out in 1939, Saville was in America and was advised to remain there. He produced pictures in support of the war effort, such as The Mortal Storm and Forever and a Day (1943) (in which he worked for the last time with his former star Jessie Matthews), and in 1945 Tonight and Every Night, based on the history of the Windmill Theatre in London. After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he was interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. He produced two final films in the 1960s, The Greengage Summer (1961), adapted from the novel of the same name, and Mix Me a Person (1962).

Фильмы

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Director
The Greengage Summer
Producer
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Целуй меня насмерть
Executive Producer
Однажды ночью Майк Хаммер подсадил в свою машину полуобнаженную блондинку, пребывавшую в нервном возбуждении. Ничего толком девушка рассказать детективу не успела, а их уже нагнали подозрительные люди. Сознание Хаммера включилось только через несколько дней в больнице, где он, едва живой, узнал, что девушка убита.
Серебряная чаша
Producer
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Серебряная чаша
Director
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Долгое ожидание
Director
Человек с амнезией наконец узнает свою истинную личность... как подозреваемого в убийстве. И он даже не знает, виновен ли он...
«Майк Хаммер» Микки Спиллейна
Executive Producer
Пилотная серия нереализованного телесериала. Блейк Эдвардс снял и отправил эту первую телевизионную попытку экранизировать Майка Хаммера Микки Спиллейна в 1954 году, но «пилот» остался непроданным и отправлен в архив, поскольку он был слишком натуралистичным и жестоким для малого экрана в то время. Случайно он был обнаружен, восстановлен и выложен в интернет. В роли Майка Хаммера снялся Брайан Кит.
Суд - это я
Producer
Майк Хаммер Микки Спиллейна в своем первом киноприключении. Первоначально показан в 3D.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Director
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Director
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Ким
Director
1885 год, Британия колонизирует Индию. Кимбол О Хара, а по попросту мальчик Ким, — наполовину британец наполовину индус, отец его умер много лет назад, так что он вынужден жить с матерью индианкой на улицах Калькутты. Этот парнишка очень ловок и смекалист. Благодаря этим качествам и незаурядной зрительной памяти он становится лучшим Чела — помощником странствующего Ламы. Волею судьбы мальчик попадает к полковнику Критону, который вербует его в качестве юного следопыта и дает задание выполнить разведывательную операцию в паре с профессиональным шпионом Махабом Али... Экранизация одноимённого романа Редьярда Киплинга.
Conspirator
Director
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
If Winter Comes
Director
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
Возжелай меня
Director
Вторая мировая война. Пол Обер и Жан Рено бегут из лагеря. Когда Пола ранят, Жан, не желая попасть в руки преследователей, бросает товарища на произвол судьбы. После войны Жан приезжает к жене Пола Маризе и рассказывает ей о гибели мужа, упуская при этом некоторые подробности происшедшего. Ещё ранее, по рассказам Пола, Жан заочно полюбил Маризу. И теперь, когда они встретились, Жан желает остаться с ней и занять в её жизни место Пола.
Улица Грин Долфин
Director
Софи любила Эдмунда, но он покинул город, когда ее родители вынудили ее выйти замуж за богатого Октавия. Спустя годы Эдмунд возвращается со своим сыном Уильямом. Дочь Софи Маргарита и Уильям влюбляются друг в друга. Сестра Маргариты Марианна тоже любит Уильяма, а плотник Тимоти тайно влюблен в Марианну. Тимоти убивает в драке человека, и Эдмунд помогает ему сбежать в Новую Зеландию. Случайно дезертировавший из флота Уильям также позорно сбегает в Новую Зеландию, где вместе с Тимоти начинает прибыльный бизнес. Однажды ночью пьяный Уильям пишет Октавию письмо с предложением руки и сердца его дочери, но путает имена сестер.
Юные годы
Director
Сирота Роберт Шеннон покидает Ирландию и едет в Логангфорд (Шотландия) в дом родственников матери. Воспитанием мальчика занимаются его прадед, дед и бабушка. Наставником Роберта в его юные годы становится добрый и понимающий прадед. Он помогает подростку преодолеть проблемы в отношениях с близкими и друзьями. Старик всегда рядом, когда нужен Роберту. Окончив школу, юноша хочет поступать в медицинский вуз, и прадед поддерживает его в этом стремлении, несмотря на протесты своего сына, деда Роберта. Экранизация одноименного романа Арчибальдa Джозефa Кронинa.
Сегодня вечером и каждый вечер
Producer
Вторая мировая война. В Лондоне, который постоянно бомбят, закрыты многие увеселительные заведения. Но в театре "Музыкальная шкатулка", где работают подруги Розалинда Брюс и Джуди Кэн всегда аншлаг, всегда много военных. Симпатичный военный летчик Пол Лэнди (Ли Боуман) влюбляется в Розалинду... И у каждого свой долг, у кого в небе, у кого в театре, ведь ни смотря ни на что "Шоу должно продолжаться. Сегодня вечером и каждый вечер"...
Сегодня вечером и каждый вечер
Director
Вторая мировая война. В Лондоне, который постоянно бомбят, закрыты многие увеселительные заведения. Но в театре "Музыкальная шкатулка", где работают подруги Розалинда Брюс и Джуди Кэн всегда аншлаг, всегда много военных. Симпатичный военный летчик Пол Лэнди (Ли Боуман) влюбляется в Розалинду... И у каждого свой долг, у кого в небе, у кого в театре, ведь ни смотря ни на что "Шоу должно продолжаться. Сегодня вечером и каждый вечер"...
Above Suspicion
Producer
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Хранитель пламени
Producer
В автокатастрофе погиб национальный герой Роберт Форрест, и вся Америка погрузилась в траур. Из Европы возвращается его горячий поклонник журналист Стив О'Мэлли, с намерением написать биографию этого великого человека, однако вскоре он приходит к убеждению, что вдова Кристин Форрест скрывает какую-то тайну.
Forever and a Day
Director
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
White Cargo
Producer
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
Smilin' Through
Producer
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.
Доктор Джекилл и мистер Хайд
Producer
Доктор Джекилл считает, что добро и зло сосуществуют в каждом человеке. Он создает эликсир, который позволяет его темной стороне, мистеру Хайду, выйти на первый план, и сталкивается с ужасными последствиями, когда ситуация выходит из-под контроля.
Лицо женщины
Producer
Главная героиня Анна Холм запрещает держать в доме зеркала. Лицо Анны изуродовано шрамом, однако ее потрясающая красота все еще отчетливо дает о себе знать. Ожесточенная женщина предстает перед нами безжалостной шантажисткой, которая не способна на человеческие чувства. Ситуация меняется, когда пластический хирург предлагает ей свою помощь…
Горькая сладость
Producer
Цветная экранизация одноименной оперетты Ноэля Коварда посвящена истории любви англичанки Сары Миллик и ее учителя пения, австрийца Карла Линдена. Сбежав с Карлом накануне своего венчания, Сара отправляется в Вену - город чудесной музыки, где радость и грусть смешались в ритме вальса. Счастливый Карл пишет оперетту, с которой собирается покорить весь мир, однако милости судьбы не безграничны: барон фон Траниш, капитан гусар, положивший глаз на девушку, не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы заполучить ее, - а Гарри Дэвентри, обманутый жених Сары, всегда готов доложить Карлу о "неверности" его супруги. Судьба романа решится на скоропалительной дуэли...
The Mortal Storm
Producer
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
The Earl of Chicago
Producer
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
До свидания, мистер Чипс
Producer
Экранизация произведения Джеймса Хилтона. Действие происходит в одном из городков викторианской Англии, куда приезжает новый учитель - мистер Чипс. На протяжении фильма старый учитель вспоминает свою долгую жизнь и многолетнюю преподавательскую карьеру в школе-интернате для мальчиков. Он выучил несколько поколений ребятишек, помнил всех своих учеников, ставших для него настоящей семьей, а также женитьбу, которая перевернула всю его жизнь… Он немного неуклюж, ученики частенько над ним смеются, но потом проникаются его искренностью и любовью к своему делу. Лейтмотивом картины является разрушительное воздействие войн на британское общество: сюжет охватывает начало франко-прусской войны и заканчивается приходом Гитлера к власти...
Цитадель
Producer
Молодой доктор Эндрю Мэнсон работал в маленьком шахтерском городке, но понял, что не может справиться с истинными причинами тяжелых болезней, которыми страдали бедные рабочие люди. Он переехал в Лондон, где приятель подсказал Мэнсону, как можно "раскручивать" богатых клиентов...
South Riding
Director
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Action for Slander
Producer
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Мрачное путешествие
Producer
Во время Первой Мировой Войны Стокгольм представлял собой рассадник международного шпионажа. Мадлен - британский двойной агент, поставляющая ложную информацию от союзников по Антанте немецкому штабу в Париже. Но она еще, и прекрасная молодая женщина, а потому неожиданно влюбляется в учтивого барона, оказавшегося главой немецкой Секретной Службы. Двум влюбленным, находящимся по разные стороны баррикад, предстоит испытать невероятной силы чувства и эмоции, а жизнь и честь их будет подвергаться нешуточным испытаниям с самого начала этой удивительной приключенческой истории, которая держит зрителя в напряжении до самого конца фильма.
Мрачное путешествие
Director
Во время Первой Мировой Войны Стокгольм представлял собой рассадник международного шпионажа. Мадлен - британский двойной агент, поставляющая ложную информацию от союзников по Антанте немецкому штабу в Париже. Но она еще, и прекрасная молодая женщина, а потому неожиданно влюбляется в учтивого барона, оказавшегося главой немецкой Секретной Службы. Двум влюбленным, находящимся по разные стороны баррикад, предстоит испытать невероятной силы чувства и эмоции, а жизнь и честь их будет подвергаться нешуточным испытаниям с самого начала этой удивительной приключенческой истории, которая держит зрителя в напряжении до самого конца фильма.
Буря в стакане воды
Producer
Франк Бердон — новый репортер в провинциальной шотландской газете. Ему поручено взять интервью у местного политического деятеля Уильяма Гоу. Журналист узнает о скандальной истории с Гоу и решает опубликовать ее, вместо ожидаемого положительного репортажа. Отношения накаляются и перерастают в уголовное дело, но одновременно, Бердон влюбляется в дочь Гоу, Викторию.
Буря в стакане воды
Director
Франк Бердон — новый репортер в провинциальной шотландской газете. Ему поручено взять интервью у местного политического деятеля Уильяма Гоу. Журналист узнает о скандальной истории с Гоу и решает опубликовать ее, вместо ожидаемого положительного репортажа. Отношения накаляются и перерастают в уголовное дело, но одновременно, Бердон влюбляется в дочь Гоу, Викторию.
It's Love Again
Director
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
First a Girl
Director
First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews. First a Girl was adapted from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel.
Me and Marlborough
Director
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
The Dictator
Director
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
The Iron Duke
Director
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Evensong
Director
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
Evergreen
Director
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
Friday the Thirteenth
Director
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
I Was A Spy
Director
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
The Good Companions
Director
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Love on Wheels
Screenplay
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
Love on Wheels
Director
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
The Faithful Heart
Adaptation
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
The Faithful Heart
Director
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
Sunshine Susie
Director
Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film The Private Secretary, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. She takes a secretarial job at a bank, and sets about catching the heart of her boss, Herr Hasel (Jack Hulbert).
Michael and Mary
Director
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
Hindle Wakes
Writer
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Hindle Wakes
Director
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
The Sport of Kings
Producer
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
The Sport of Kings
Director
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
A Warm Corner
Writer
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
A Warm Corner
Adaptation
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
A Warm Corner
Director
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
The W Plan
Producer
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The W Plan
Writer
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The W Plan
Director
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
Armistice
Director
'Songs of the 1914-18 war.' (British Film Catalogue)
Woman to Woman
Writer
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss.
Woman to Woman
Director
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss.
Me and the Boys
Director
A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.
Kitty
Director
A shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
Tesha
Producer
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.
Tesha
Writer
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.
Tesha
Director
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.
Hindle Wakes
Producer
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
Hindle Wakes
Writer
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
The White Shadow
Producer
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive.
Woman to Woman
Producer
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.