Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
Title : | Pearl upon Pearl |
Writer : | Atreus van Schraeder |
Production : | Quality Plays |
Producer : | |
Director : | George A Cooper |
Studios : | Screenplays Studio, Clapham |
Released : | 12 March 1923 |
Distributor : | The Walturdaw Co.Ltd. |
Cast : | A B Imerson |
Dezma du May | |
W G Saunders | |
Storyline : | Set in an island in the South Seas, the plot sketches in the love of a Kanaka boy for the daughter of a quarter-cast pearl trader, who beats him for |
weaving a wreath of flowers. The trader is visited by Wu Wang, a buyer of pearls, with whom he sits down to play for their ill-gotten gains. The trader, furious | |
at losing all his pearls to Wu Wang, stakes his daughter to try and recover them. But after draining the cups of whisky brought to them by the Kanaka, | |
rage possess them, and both fire at each other and fall dead. The Kanaka then explains to the girl he has saved how he put cayenne pepper in the whisky bottle. | |
Information : | Titles in second series in The Bioscope of 23 November 1922 |
Storyline, review and photograph in Kinematograph Weekly of 22 February 1923 | |
Release date in Kinematograph Weekly of 1 March 1923 | |
Showing in Perthshire Advertiser of 4 August 1923 | |
Notes : | One reel film. |