Shooting Stars (1927 film)
1927 film
- 10 June 1928 (1928-06-10) (US)
Running time
Shooting Stars is a 1927 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and A. V. Bramble and starring Annette Benson, Brian Aherne and Wally Patch.[1] The screenplay concerns a starlet who plots an escape to Hollywood.
Premise
At Zenith Studios, a starlet plots an escape to Hollywood with her lover and the murder of her superfluous husband.
Cast
- Annette Benson as Mae Feather
- Brian Aherne as Julian Gordon
- Donald Calthrop as Andy Wilkes
- Wally Patch as Property Man
- David Brooks as Turner
- Ella Daincourt as Asphodel Smythe, Journalist
- Chili Bouchier as Winnie, Bathing Beauty
- Tubby Phillips as Fatty
- Ian Wilson as Reporter
- Judd Green as Lighting Man
- Jack Rawl as Hero
Production
It was Asquith's first film as a director. It was made at Cricklewood Studios in North London for British Instructional Films. The novelisation of the film was written by the popular novelist E. Charles Vivian.[2]
Restoration
Shooting Stars was restored in 2015 by the British Film Institute with a new score by John Altman. The new print premiered as the Archive Gala of the 2015 London Film Festival.
References
External links
- Shooting Stars at IMDb
- Shooting Stars at Rotten Tomatoes
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Films directed by Anthony Asquith
- Shooting Stars (1927)
- Underground (1928)
- The Runaway Princess (1929)
- A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
- Tell England (1931)
- Dance Pretty Lady (1931)
- The Lucky Number (1933)
- Unfinished Symphony (1934)
- Moscow Nights (1935)
- Pygmalion (1938)
- French Without Tears (1940)
- Freedom Radio (1941)
- Quiet Wedding (1941)
- Cottage to Let (1941)
- Uncensored (1942)
- We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- The Demi-Paradise (1943)
- Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
- The Way to the Stars (1945)
- While the Sun Shines (1947)
- The Winslow Boy (1948)
- The Woman in Question (1950)
- The Browning Version (1951)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
- The Net (1953)
- The Final Test (1953)
- The Young Lovers (1954)
- Carrington V.C. (1954)
- Orders to Kill (1958)
- The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
- Libel (1959)
- The Millionairess (1960)
- Two Living, One Dead (1961)
- Guns of Darkness (1962)
- The V.I.P.s (1963)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
- The Story of Papworth (1935)
- Channel Incident (1940)
- Rush Hour (1941)
- Two Fathers (1944)
- On Such a Night (1955)
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