City of Play

Summary

City of Play is a 1929 British part-talkie sound drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Chili Bouchier, Patrick Aherne and Lawson Butt.[1] It was made by Gainsborough Pictures and produced by Michael Balcon. The film featured a few sequences with dialogue and singing while the remaining film used English intertitles along with a musical score and sound effects.[2]

City of Play
Directed byDenison Clift
Written byDenison Clift
Angus MacPhail
Produced byMichael Balcon
Starring
CinematographyClaude L. McDonnell
Production
company
Distributed byWoolf and Freedman
Release date
1 July 1929
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
English

Cast edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Low p.205

Bibliography edit

  • Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links edit

  • City of Play at IMDb