Turns out the leading occupation is smuggling to avoid the exorbitant excise taxes imposed by the King. Syn, who looks kindly on the blossoming romance between the orphan Imogene, played by Margaret Lockwood, and Denis Crabtree, son of the village squire, played by John Loder:ĭymchurch is plagued by nighttime apparitions of ghost riders on the nearby Romney Marsh but the main business of the villagers is a little fuzzy. The story is set in Dymchurch, a seaside village in Kent, England, in the year 1800. The novels still have quite a following in the UK. The novel is a thematic blend of Robert Louis Stevenson and Sigmund Freud that was so successful Thorndyke wrote several sequels. SYN (1937), a corking good pirate yarn based on a popular novel by Russell Thorndyke. George Arliss as action hero? Not likely but Mr. A’s movies ran on the average as long as his plays before he appeared in a new one, it would have taken him over forty years to complete his eighteen films!
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A’s hit plays ran between two and five years, his most successful films would run in movie theaters for only a week or two. George Arliss made a grand total of eighteen sound feature films from 1929 to 1937, an enormous output (plus an elusive short UK film he made in 1931 where he recites Disraeli’s speeches), and another six silent films from 1921 to 1924. Margaret Lockwood recalled in her memoirs how nervous she was as she was waited for Her Royal Majesty with co-stars Mr. SYN was graced by no less a person than Queen Mary herself. A also praised producer Edward Black much more enthusiastically than the faint praise he gave Michael Balcon, the producer of his previous four UK films. A singled out for praise the director, Roy William Neill, who would later work in Hollywood directing a number of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
He said it had no “plus value,” that is, an element that people would think about after the movie was over. SYN other than noting that the story took place in his beloved Kent. He had little to say in his memoirs about making Dr. A heads an ensemble cast rather than carrying the entire story on his back as he had with so many of his earlier films. The chief thing your blogmeister noticed about this particular Arliss film is that Mr. The reviewer for the New York Times praised it by saying the he found it superior to the MGM blockbuster TREASURE ISLAND (1934), a film with a similar story involving smuggling in the late 18th century. SYN is the final British film and the last film made by Mr.
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