Sahara Love
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Sahara Love is a 1926 British
silent
drama film
directed by Sinclair Hill
and starring Marie Colette, Jean Dehelly and Sybil Rhoda. It was based on a novel by A.L. Vincent. The production company held a competition, the winner of which won a leading role in 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...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Sinclair Hill
Sinclair Hill
Sinclair Hill was a British film director and screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894...
and starring Marie Colette, Jean Dehelly and Sybil Rhoda. It was based on a novel by A.L. Vincent. The production company held a competition, the winner of which won a leading role in the film.
Cast
- Marie Colette - Eleanor Vallance
- Jean Dehelly - Hugh Trevor
- Sybil Rhoda - Melody Rourke
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