Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
Title : | The Great Hunger Duel |
Writer : | Kenneth Graeme and Derwent Nicol |
Production : | Anchor Films Ltd. |
Producer : | |
Director : | Kenneth Graeme |
Studios : | Riverside Studios, Kew |
Released : | September 1922 |
Distributor : | |
Cast : | Kenneth Graeme as Mr Pusher Long |
Sydney Folker as The Lover | |
Clive Tristi as The Rival | |
Dawn Meredith as The Girl | |
Storyline : | Two young men in a boarding house in Bloomsbury compete for the hand of an heiress as to whom should abstain from food for the longer. |
A sensation is created in which the Press agents overshadow their every action, until one of the parties breaks the fast in a furious descent upon | |
the victuals in the kitchen. It then transpires that compressed tablets, which combine meals in a tabloid form, have sustained life in the pair. | |
Information : | Mentioned with photograph in Kinematograph Weekly - 21 July 1921 |
Storyline and cast in Kinematograph Weekly - 11 May 1922 | |
Notes : | Two reel film. |
Second film of twelve in the 'Mr Pusher Long' series. It is not known if Sydney had any involvement with these others. |