The_Wife_of_General_Ling

<i>The Wife of General Ling</i>

The Wife of General Ling

1937 British film

The Wife of General Ling is a 1937 British drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Griffith Jones, Valéry Inkijinoff and Adrianne Renn.[1] It was adapted from a novel by Dorothy Hope and Peter Cheyney. The film was made at Shepperton Studios by the independent company Premier-Stafford Productions.

Quick Facts The Wife of General Ling, Directed by ...

Plot

Following the murder of a loyal Chinese, John Fenton, a British secret-service agent, is aided by the European wife of a Hong Kong merchant, Mr Wong, to expose him as a rebel war lord, General Ling.

Cast

Notability

  • Although R. Thomas is the editor credited, David Lean was involved feasibly with the editing.[1]
  • A poster for Wife of General Ling appears within a movie-theater backdrop in the motion picture, Boxcar Bertha.[2]
  • This film contains the only recording of the dancing of the "Mother of Chinese Modern Dance", Dai Ailian, from her time in London.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "The Wife of General Ling". BFI Collections Search. British Film Institute. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  2. [2]
    Scorsese, Martin (director) (14 June 1972). Boxcar Bertha (Motion picture). Los Angeles: American International Pictures. Event occurs at 1h:8m:42s.
  3. [3]
    Wilcox, Emily (2018). Revolutionary bodies : Chinese dance and the socialist legacy. doi:10.1525/luminos.58. ISBN 9780520300576. S2CID 191503359.


Stub icon

This article related to a British film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article The_Wife_of_General_Ling, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.