Quinneys (1919 film)
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Quinneys is a 1919 British
romance film
directed by Rex Wilson
and starring Henry Ainley
, Isobel Elsom
and Eric Harrison. It is an adaptation of the play Quinneys by Horace Annesley Vachell
which was again made into a film in 1927
.
A reported £100,000 worth of props were used for the film.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
romance film
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...
directed by Rex Wilson
Rex Wilson (director)
-Selected filmography:* Tom Brown's Schooldays * The Life of Lord Kitchener * Quinneys * Unmarried * Tilly of Bloomsbury * St. Elmo...
and starring Henry Ainley
Henry Ainley
Henry Hinchliffe Ainley was an English Shakespearean stage and screen actor. He was married three times to Susanne Sheldon, Elaine Fearon and the novelist Bettina Riddle, later Baroness von Hutten zum Stolzenberg...
, Isobel Elsom
Isobel Elsom
Isobel Elsom was an English screen, stage, and television actress.-Career:Born as Isobel Jeannette Reed in Cambridge, England, Elsom usually was cast as an aristocratic lady of the upper class. Over the course of three decades she appeared in 17 Broadway productions, beginning with The Ghost Train...
and Eric Harrison. It is an adaptation of the play Quinneys by Horace Annesley Vachell
Horace Annesley Vachell
Horace Annesley Vachell was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works.Born in Sydenham, Kent on 30 October 1861, he was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a short period in the Rifle Brigade, he went to California where he became partner in...
which was again made into a film in 1927
Quinneys (1927 film)
Quinneys is a 1927 British romance film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring John Longden, Alma Taylor and Henry Vibart. It is an adaptation of the play Quinneys by Horace Annesley Vachell. David Lean worked on the film as a camera assistant...
.
A reported £100,000 worth of props were used for the film.
Cast
- Henry AinleyHenry AinleyHenry Hinchliffe Ainley was an English Shakespearean stage and screen actor. He was married three times to Susanne Sheldon, Elaine Fearon and the novelist Bettina Riddle, later Baroness von Hutten zum Stolzenberg...
- Joseph Quinney - Isobel ElsomIsobel ElsomIsobel Elsom was an English screen, stage, and television actress.-Career:Born as Isobel Jeannette Reed in Cambridge, England, Elsom usually was cast as an aristocratic lady of the upper class. Over the course of three decades she appeared in 17 Broadway productions, beginning with The Ghost Train...
- Posy Quinney - Eric Harrison - James Miggott
- Tom ReynoldsTom Reynolds (actor)-Selected filmography:* Onward Christian Soldiers * A Member of Tattersall's * The Right Element * Mrs. Thompson * The Winning Goal * Tilly of Bloomsbury * She * A Royal Divorce...
- Sam Tomlin - Roland PertweeRoland PertweeRoland Pertwee was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of both Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee and fellow playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee...
- Cyrus Hunsucker - Marie WrightMarie Wright-Selected filmography:* The Kinsman * Mrs. Thompson * Murder! * Up for the Cup * Tilly of Bloomsbury * The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss * Sixty Glorious Years...
- Mabel Dredge