A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Cast: Elissa Landi [Nell], Brian Aherne [Bill], Norah Baring [Kate, the seamstress], Cyril McLaglen [Bert, the power station worker]

British Instructional Films, Limited, production; distributed by Pro Patria. / Scenario by Anthony Asquith. Art direction by Ian Campbell-Gray. Lighting technician, Karl Fischer. Cinematography by Stanley Rodwell. / Released July 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Asquith’s first film as sole director. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [35mm restoration negative, 35mm restoration positives].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 20 August 2022.

References: Perry-British pp. 57, 60m, 301; Ryall-Blackmail p. 13; Wakeman-World pp. 8-9, 12 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.