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Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
W.P. Kellino

Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Writer
  
W.A. Darlington
,
Val Valentine
,
Arthur Le Clerq
,
Scott Sidney

Release date
  
November 1929

Alfs Carpet is a 1929 British comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Gerald Rawlinson, Gladys Hamer, Harald Madsen and Carl Schenstrom. It was loosely based on the novel Alfs Button by W.A. Darlington. It is also known by the alternative title The Rocket Bus.

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Production

The film was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was originally intended as a silent, but as British studios switched to sound film and large chunks of it were shot in sound.

Cast

  • Gerald Rawlinson as Jimmy Donaldson
  • Gladys Hamer as Lizzie Fletcher
  • Harald Madsen as Alf
  • Carl Schenstrom as Bill
  • Philip Hewland as Djinn
  • Edward ONeill as Joans Father
  • Janice Adair as Joan
  • Frank Perfitt as Caliph

    • Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918–1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
  • Warren, Patricia. Elstree: The British Hollywood. Columbus Books, 1988.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

    • References

    Alfs Carpet Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA



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