A Couple of Down and Outs
A Couple of Down and Outs | |
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Directed by | Walter Summers |
Written by | Walter Summers |
Produced by | G.B. Samuelson |
Starring | Edna Best Rex Davis George Foley |
Production company | Napoleon Films |
Distributed by | Napoleon Films |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
A Couple of Down and Outs is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Walter Summers and starring Edna Best, Rex Davis and George Foley.
Production
[edit]It was made at Isleworth Studios.[1] The film sought to raise public sympathy for veterans of the First World War struggling in the years of peace as well as animals who had undergone war service. Summers, who had himself served during the conflict, made a number of films using the war as backdrop.
Synopsis
[edit]Danny Creath, an unemployed war veteran, is passing through the docks when sees his old horse 'Jack' being maltreated before it is shipped to Belgium to be turned into horsemeat. They had previously served together in the Royal Horse Artillery, both being wounded in action, and Creath decides to rescue him with the assistance of crowd of passers-by. Pursued by the police he takes shelter in a house where a young woman, reminded of her own brother who was killed during the war, helps him to escape.
Cast
[edit]- Edna Best as Molly Roarke
- Rex Davis as Danny Creath
- George Foley as P.C. Roake
- Philip Hewland
References
[edit]- ^ Harris p.67
Bibliography
[edit]- Harris, Ed. Britain's Forgotten Film Factory: The Story of Isleworth Studios. Amberley Publishing, 2013.
External links
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- 1923 films
- 1920s war drama films
- British war drama films
- British silent feature films
- 1920s English-language films
- Films directed by Walter Summers
- Films shot at Isleworth Studios
- Films set in England
- Films set in London
- British World War I films
- British black-and-white films
- 1923 drama films
- 1920s British films
- Silent war drama films
- 1920s British film stubs
- World War I film stubs