Shooting_Stars_(1927_film)

<i>Shooting Stars</i> (1927 film)

Shooting Stars (1927 film)

1927 film

Shooting Stars is a 1927 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and A. V. Bramble and starring Annette Benson, Brian Aherne and Wally Patch.[1] The screenplay concerns a starlet who plots an escape to Hollywood.

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Premise

At Zenith Studios, a starlet plots an escape to Hollywood with her lover and the murder of her superfluous husband.

Cast

Production

It was Asquith's first film as a director. It was made at Cricklewood Studios in North London for British Instructional Films. The novelisation of the film was written by the popular novelist E. Charles Vivian.[2]

Restoration

Shooting Stars was restored in 2015 by the British Film Institute with a new score by John Altman. The new print premiered as the Archive Gala of the 2015 London Film Festival.

References

  1. [1]
    BFI.org
  2. [2]
    Shooting Stars. From the film by Anthony Asquith. Adaptation by E. C. Vivian. Hurst & Blackett, London, 1928.


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