Malcolm Smith's Family History Archive


Biography of

Sydney  Newton  FOLKER

[Ref. Q.5]


List of films

 

Filmography

 

Title : Vi of Smith's Alley
Writer : Charles Barnett
Production : Broadwest Film Company
Producer :
Director : Walter West
Studios :
Released : July 1921
Distributor : Walturdaw Company Limited
Cast : Violet Hopson as Vi Jeffries
Cameron Carr as Sydney Baxter
George Foley as Nathaniel Baxter
Sydney Folker as Bill Saunders (Vi's lover)
Amy Verity as Eileen Boston
Peter Upcher as Reggie Drew
Sydney Frayne as Teddy
Storyline : As a result of an accident in the jam factory in which she was one of the hands, Violet Jeffries is transferred, by the good offices of Eileen Boston,
to the domestic staff of the Boston household. She soon becomes the confidant of Eileen, who is being forced by her father to marry his manager, Sydney Baxter,
whereas she wants to marry Reggie Drew. Her father makes a will by which Baxter becomes the heir if she does not marry him, but Eileen elopes with Reggie.
Then Vi discoveres that Baxter is the father of the child of a poor woman who died as a result of the neglect of the husband who deserted her. When Boston hears of
this he immediately takes steps to alter his will. That same night, Baxter attempts to take the life of Boston, but Vi throws herself in the way and receives the shot,
from the effects of which it takes some weeks for her to recover. In the meantime, Eileen has been reconciled to her father.
Information : Violet Hopson to act in Kinematograph Weekly - 7 April 1921
Violet Hopson attracts the crowds in Kinematograph Weekly - 28 April 1921
Photograph of Violet Hopson in Sunday Pictorial - 1 May 1921
Filming in Keiller's factory in The Bioscope - 12 May 1921
Mention of Sydney's work in Kinematograph Weekly - 2 June 1921
Films viewed in India in The Era - 8 June 1921
Violet Hopson on location in The Weekly Dispatch - 19 June 1921
List of films by Broadwest in The Bioscope - 14 July 1921
Violet Hopson praised in The Stage - 21 July 1921
Trade showings in Birmingham in Kinematograph Weekly - 6 October 1921
Photograph of Violet Hopson in The Illustrated Leicester Chronicle - 23 July 1921
Production details and photograph in Kinematograph Weekly - 29 September 1921
Bookings good in The Bioscope - 29 September 1921
Good review in Kinematograph Weekly - 29 September 1921
Location details in Pictures and Picturegoer - October 1922
Notes : Six reel film.
Some scenes filmed in Keiller's jam factory in Scotland.

 


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