The Yellow Mask
| The Yellow Mask | |
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| Directed by | Harry Lachman |
| Written by | George Arthurs Harry Lachman (adaptation) Miles Malleson (dialogue) George Arthurs (dialogue) Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation) |
| Screenplay by | Val Valentine |
| Based on | play by Edgar Wallace |
| Produced by | John Maxwell |
| Starring | Lupino Lane Dorothy Seacombe Warwick Ward Wilfred Temple |
| Cinematography | Walter Blakeley Claude Friese-Greene |
| Edited by | Edward B. Jarvis |
| Music by | John Reynders |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000[1] |
| Box office | $300,000[1] |
The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.[2] A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel The Traitor's Gate.,[3] adapted into the play The Yellow Mask, which premiered in London in 1928.[4]
Cast
[edit]- Lupino Lane as Sam Slipper
- Dorothy Seacombe as Mary Trayne
- Warwick Ward as Li San
- Haddon Mason as Ralph Carn
- Wilfred Temple as John Carn
- Frank Cochrane as Ah-Song
- Wallace Lupino as Steward
- Bill Shine (actor) as Sunshine
- Winnie Collins as Molly
Reception
[edit]Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity."[5] The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "English Making Money". Variety. 17 September 1930. p. 57.
- ^ "The Yellow Mask". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Phyllis Dare in Edgar Wallace's the Yellow Mask, London, 1928". 6 October 2014.
- ^ "THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald". eBay. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Movie Review - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation". The New York Times. 8 December 1930. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
External links
[edit]- 1930 films
- 1930 crime films
- Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
- Films directed by Harry Lachman
- Films set in London
- British black-and-white films
- 1930 musical films
- British crime films
- British musical films
- Films shot at British International Pictures Studios
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s British films
- Films scored by John Reynders
- English-language crime films
- English-language musical films