Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
Title : | The English Rose |
Writer : | Adapted by Paul Rooff from an original play by Robert Buchanan & George R.Sims |
Production : | British Standard Film Productions Ltd. |
Producer : | John Robyns |
Director : | Fred Paul |
Studios : | Barker's Studios, Ealing |
Released : | December 1920 |
Distributor : | Whincup |
Cast : | Fred Paul as Father Michael |
Humberston Wright as Captain MacDonnell | |
Sydney Folker as Harry O'Malley | |
Mary Morton | |
Jack Raymond | |
Amy Brandon Thomas as Rose Kingston | |
George Turner | |
Clifford Desborough | |
Storyline : | Harry O’Malley is obliged to sell his ancestral home, which is bought by Sir Philip Kingston, a self-made man, with a beautiful daughter, |
Rose, with whom Harry falls in love. Captain MacDonnell, Sir Philip’s secretary, hopes to marry Rose in order to cover up his own defalcations. | |
Sir Philip discovers his true character and dismisses him. MacDonnell shoots Sir Philip, and contrives to implicate Harry, who is arrested and found guilty | |
by the Coroner’s Jury. MacDonnell’s accomplice makes a confession, which clears Harry. MacDonnell is arrested, and the young lovers are united. | |
Information : | Background information in The Bioscope - 19 February 1920 |
Background information in Kinematograph Weekly - 26 February 1920 | |
Background information in The Bioscope - 18 March 1920 | |
British Standard Films evolution in Kinematograph Weekly - 1 April 1920 | |
Background information in The Bioscope - 10 April 1920 | |
Advertisement in Kinematograph Weekly - 15 April 1920 | |
Cast details in The Bioscope - 1 July 1920 | |
Notes : | First film by newly formed British Standard Films. |
Film length 6,000 feet. | |
Release date given as 17 March 1924 in Kinematograph Weekly - 28 February 1924. | |
Release date given as 17 March 1924 in Kinematograph Weekly - 6 March 1924. |