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Shooting Stars
Also known as Estrellas fugaces in Argentina; Un drame au studio in France; Hulló csillagok in Hungary; Nos Bastidores do Cinema in Portgual
(1928) England
B&W : Seven reels / 7202 feet
Directed by A.V. Bramble + [Anthony Asquith]
Cast: Annette Benson [Mae Feather], Brian Aherne [Julian Gordon], Donald Calthrop [Andy Wilks]; Jack Rawl [the hero], Tubby Phillips [Fatty], Chili Boucher (Chili Bouchier) [Winnie, a bathing beauty], David Brooks [Mr. Turner, the “Prairie Love” director], Wally Patch [the property man], Judd Green [the lighting man], Ella Daincourt [Asphodel ‘Flicker’ Smythe, a film journalist], Ian Wilson [her reporter sidekick], Polly Ward [the woman in the beach tent], Ivy Ellison, [?] ? [the “Prairie Love” cameraman], [?] ? [the “Prairie Love” camera assistant], [?] ? [Mr. Sprae, the comedy director]
British Instructional Films, Limited, production; distributed by New Era Films, Limited. / Produced by H. Bruce Woolfe. Scenario by John Orton (J.O.C. Orton) + [Anthony Asquith], from a screen story by Anthony Asquith. Settings (production design) by Ian Campbell-Gray and W. Murton (Walter Murton). Scenic artist, C.P. Norman. Light (lighting direction) by Karl Fischer. Assistant director, Anthony Asquith. Photography (cinematography) by S. Rodwell (Stanley Rodwell) and H. Harris (Henry Harris). Stills photography by Eric Gray. Presented by New Era Films, Limited. / Released 21 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA on 10 June 1928. The film was released in France as Un drame au studio on 9 August 1929. The film was released in Portugal as Nos Bastidores do Cinema on 11 August 1930. / Silent film.
Drama: Mystery.
Survival status: Prints exist in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [35mm nitrate camera negative (one reel only), 35mm nitrate master positive, and two 35mm nitrate positives].
Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder
Listing updated: 1 February 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Perry-British pp. 57, 60l, 300, 301; Wakeman-World pp. 8, 9 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc; DVD.
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