Malcolm Smith's Family History Archive


Biography of

Sydney  Newton  FOLKER

[Ref. Q.5]


List of films

 

Filmography

 

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.

 


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