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Director  Ewald Andre Dupont
Language  English
7.2/10 IMDb

Country  UK
Cape Forlorn movie poster

Release date  1931
Based on  play by Frank Harvey
Writer  Ewald Andre Dupont (play), Ewald Andre Dupont (screenplay), Frank Harvey (play), Victor Kendall
Tagline  They were swept away on an undercurrent of tense emotion!

Cape Forlorn is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter. It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made Le cap perdu and Menschen im Käfig.

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Plot

A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead.

Selected cast

  • Fay Compton – Eileen Kell
  • Frank Harvey – William Kell
  • Ian Hunter – Gordon Kingsley
  • Edmund Willard – Henry Cass
  • Donald Calthrop – Parsons
  • Jerome Vincent
  • Original play

    The movie was based on a play which premiered in 1930. It was written by Frank Harvey who appeared in the original cast.

    Production

    Shooting took place in late 1930 and it was made in English, French and German.

    Release

    The film was originally banned in Australia by the censor but this was overturned on appeal after a number of cuts were agreed upon.

    Reviews were poor.

    Shortly after the film was released in Australia, Harvey appeared in a production of the play at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney. Harvey said this was in part because the film version had so changed his play.

    References

    Cape Forlorn Wikipedia
    Cape Forlorn IMDb Cape Forlorn themoviedb.org