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Production company
  
Gainsborough Pictures

Screenplay
  
Alfred Hitchcock

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Initial release
  
1924

Production company
  
Gainsborough Pictures

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Produced by
  
Michael Balcon Victor Saville

Written by
  
Graham Cutts Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited) Michael Morton (novel Children of Chance)

Starring
  
Betty Compson Clive Brook Henry Victor A. B. Imeson

Distributed by
  
Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK) Selznick Releasing (US)

Release date
  
August 1923 (UK) 13 October 1924 (US)

Directors
  
Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Cutts

Distributor
  
Woolf & Freedman Film Service

Cast
  
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A B Imeson

Similar
  
Clive Brook movies, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Dramas

The White Shadow (1923), also known as White Shadows in the US, is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Betty Compson, Clive Brook, and Henry Victor.

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Plot

The plot concerns twin sisters, one good, the other evil.

Cast

  • Betty Compson as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
  • Clive Brook as Robin Field
  • Henry Victor as Louis Chadwick
  • A. B. Imeson as Mr. Brent
  • Olaf Hytten as Herbert Barnes
  • Daisy Campbell as Elizabeth Brent
  • Production

    The film is based on the novel Children of Chance by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock collaborated with Cutts on the film. Cutts and Hitchcock made the film quickly, as they wanted to make use of Betty Compson, who had appeared in their hit Woman to Woman (also 1923), before she returned to the United States.

    The film was made at the Gainsborough Pictures studio in Hoxton, London.

    Writing about the film in 1969, producer Michael Balcon said:

    "Engrossed in our first production [Woman to Woman], we had made no preparations for the second. Caught on the hop, we rushed into production with a story called The White Shadow. It was as big a flop as Woman to Woman had been a success."

    Preservation status

    The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, the National Film Preservation Foundation announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in the garden shed of Jack Murtagh in Hastings, New Zealand in 1989 and donated to the NFPF. One film can was mislabeled Two Sisters, while the other simply stated Unidentified American Film. Only later were they identified.

    The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive.

    References

    The White Shadow (film) Wikipedia