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How Kitchener Was Betrayed

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Screenplay
  
Norman Ramsey

Writer
  
Norman Ramsey

Language
  
English

Director
  
Genre
  
War film

Country
  
United Kingdom

Release date
  
November 1922

Cast
  
Fred Paul, Wallace Bosco, Ian Swinley, Winifred Evans, Frank Goldsmith, Bertram Burleigh, Peggy Hathaway

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How Kitchener Was Betrayed is a 1921 British silent war film directed by Percy Nash and starring Fred Paul, Winifred Evans and Bertram Burleigh. It was a fictional portrayal of the events leading up to the death of Herbert Kitchener on HMS Hampshire during the First World War in which the German secret service received warning of the General's activities through a German agent Elbie Böcker. The film was intended to cash in on the controversy raised by the publication of a biography of Kitchener in 1920 challenging the Admiralty's official conclusion that the ship was sunk by a mine. Only one of its six reels survives.

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Controversy

The film's plot raised objections from a number of figures on the grounds of historical inaccuracy and it was refused a licence by the London County Council (LCC) authorities, effectively barring its distribution throughout Britain. Pressure was also successfully exerted on William Hays of the Motion Picture Association of America to ban the film in the United States and the French authorities also refused to screen it. The film's delayed premiere took place at Leicester Square in November 1922, and the LCC immediately took legal action against the cinema owner who conceded the case. No further attempts were made to release the film. This put in place an effective ban on controversial contemporary history films until the release of Herbert Wilcox's Dawn in 1928.

Cast

  • Fred Paul - Field Marshal Kitchener
  • Winifred Evans - Elbie Böcker
  • Bertram Burleigh - Lieutenant Mack
  • Peggy Hathaway - Mrs. Mack
  • Ian Swinley - The Spy
  • Wallace Bosco
  • Frank Goldsmith
  • References

    How Kitchener Was Betrayed Wikipedia
    How Kitchener Was Betrayed IMDb


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