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One of the Best
(1927) England
B&W : [?] Eight? reels
Directed by T. Hayes Hunter

Cast: Carlyle Blackwell [Philip Ellsworth], Walter Butler (Walter Byron) [Lieutenant Dudley Keppel], Eve Gray [Mary Penrose], Randle Ayrton [General Gregg], James Carew [Colonel Gentry], Julie Suedo [Claire Melville], James Lindsay [Maurice de Gruchy], Pauline Johnson [Esther], Elsa Lanchester [Kitty], Charles Emerald [Private Jupp], Cecil Barry [Lieutenant Wynne], Simeon Stuart [Squire Penrose], Harold Huth [an adjutant]

[?] Piccadilly (Carlyle Blackwell Productions) for Gainsborough Pictures, Limited?; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service. / Produced by Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell. Scenario by [?] Patrick L. Mannock?, from a play by George Edwardes-Hall and Seymour Hicks. / Released November 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Lanchester’s film debut. / Silent film.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 28 October 2018.

References: Pohle-Holmes p. ? : Website-IMDb.