The Luck of the Navy (film)
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The Luck of the Navy is a 1927 British
silent
comedy
thriller film directed by Fred Paul
and starring Evelyn Laye
, Henry Victor
and Hayford Hobbs
. It was an adaptation of the 1919 play The Luck of the Navy
by Mrs Clifford Mills.
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...
comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
thriller film directed by Fred Paul
Fred Paul
Fred Paul was a Swiss-born British actor and film director. Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and directors in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films.-Selected filmography:Director* The...
and starring Evelyn Laye
Evelyn Laye
Evelyn Laye, CBE was an English theatre and film actress.-Early years and career:Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr...
, Henry Victor
Henry Victor
Henry Victor was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films...
and Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in 1892. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film The Third Generation and appeared in his last film High Treason in 1929. The following year he directed his first film, a...
. It was an adaptation of the 1919 play The Luck of the Navy
The Luck of the Navy (play)
The Luck of the Navy is a British comedy thriller play by Mrs Clifford Mills. It was first staged in 1919. It was later revived at the Playhouse Theatre in London on 24 December 1934 and ran for 22 performances...
by Mrs Clifford Mills.
Partial cast
- Evelyn LayeEvelyn LayeEvelyn Laye, CBE was an English theatre and film actress.-Early years and career:Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr...
- Cynthia Eden - Henry VictorHenry VictorHenry Victor was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films...
- Lieutenant Clive Stanton - Hayford HobbsHayford HobbsHayford Hobbs was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in 1892. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film The Third Generation and appeared in his last film High Treason in 1929. The following year he directed his first film, a...
- Louis Peel - Robert CunninghamRobert CunninghamRobert Cunningham was a British-Canadian lay missionary turned entrepreneur who founded the town of Port Essington, British Columbia....
- Admiral Maybridge - Norma WhalleyNorma Whalley-Biography:Whalley was the daughter of Henry Octavius Whalley, a doctor working in Australia.During the late 1890s she toured South Africa, meeting Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic soon after the Jameson Raid.In 1901 she was married to J...
- Mrs Peel - H. Agar Lyons - Colonel Dupont
- William FreshmanWilliam FreshmanWilliam Freshman was an Australian-born actor, writer and director. He moved to England as a child and worked in the British film industry, writing over 20 screenplays and working as an associate producer at British International Pictures...
- Wing Eden - Basil Griffen - Anna
- Zoe Palmer - Dora Green