fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

Loyalties is a 1933 British drama film directed by Basil Dean and starring Basil Rathbone, Heather Thatcher and Miles Mander.[1] It is based on the 1922 John Galsworthy play Loyalties.

Loyalties
Miles Mander confronts Basil Rathbone
Directed by	Basil Dean
Written by	John Galsworthy (play) W. P. Lipscomb
Produced by	Basil Dean
Starring	Basil Rathbone Heather Thatcher Miles Mander
Cinematography	Robert Martin
Edited by	Thorold Dickinson
Production company	Associated Talking Pictures
Distributed by	ABFD (UK) Harold Auten (US)
Release date	3 July 1933
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The film addresses the theme of anti-Semitism. The film was part of an increased trend depicting mistreatment of Jews in British films during the 1930s, tied to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, but is unusual in its depiction of prejudice in Britain as most other films were set in a non-British, historical context.[2]

Plot

While a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, the wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and then sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis's reputation. When Dancy is later exposed and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.

Cast

• Basil Rathbone - Ferdinand de Levis
• Heather Thatcher - Margaret Orme
• Miles Mander - Captain Ronald Dancy, DSO
• Joan Wyndham - Mabel, Mrs. Borring
• Philip Strange - Major Colford
• Alan Napier - General Canynge
• Cecily Byrne - Lady Adela
• Athole Stewart - Lord St. Erth
• Patric Curwen - Sir Fredric Blair
• Marcus Barron - The Lord Chief Justice
• Ben Field - Gilman
• Griffith Humphreys - Inspector Jones
• Robert Coote - Robert
• Aubrey Dexter - Kentman
• Laurence Hanray - Jacob Twisden
• Stafford Hilliard - Treisure
• Anthony Holles - Ricardos
• Mike Johnson - Jenkins
• Arnold Lucy - Googie
• Don MacKay - Mike Sawchuck
• Robert Mawdesley - Edward Graviter
• Maxine Sandra - Ricardo's Daughter
• Patrick Waddington - Augustus Borring
• Algernon West - Charles Winsor

Production

Film rights were purchased by Herbert Wilcox for £9,000. He developed a screenplay for an extra £2,000. Galsworthy had contractual rights of approval over the project. Wilcox sold the project to William Fox for £20,000.[3]

The film was the first to be made by Associated Talking Pictures (which later became Ealing Studios), after the breakdown of their arrangement with RKO Pictures.[4] Carol Reed and Thorold Dickinson both worked on the film's production as assistant directors. Edward Carrick designed the film's sets.

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachel. History of British Film: Volume VII, 1929-1939. Routledge, 1997
• Robertson, James C. The British Board of Film Censors: film censorship in Britain, 1896-1950. Croom Helm, 1985.

External links

• Loyalties at IMDb

---