The Three Passions
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The Three Passions is a 1929 British
drama film
directed by Rex Ingram
and starring Alive Terry, Iván Petrovich
and Shayle Gardner
. It was made as a quota film for Allied Artists and was based on a novel by Cosmo Hamilton
.
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...
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 Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram (director)
Rex Ingram was an Irish film director, producer, writer and actor. Legendary director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director."-Early life:...
and starring Alive Terry, Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich was a silent-and-sound motion picture Serbian actor....
and Shayle Gardner
Shayle Gardner
-Selected filmography:* St. Elmo * The Chinese Bungalow * The Three Passions * Three Live Ghosts * Disraeli * The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu * The Lodger * The Love Test...
. It was made as a quota film for Allied Artists and was based on a novel by Cosmo Hamilton
Cosmo Hamilton
Cosmo Hamilton , born Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs, was an English playwright and novelist. He took his mother's maiden name when he began to write. Hamilton was married twice: First to Beryl Faber, née Beryl Crossley Smith, the sister of C...
.
Cast
- Alice TerryAlice TerryAlice Terry was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933.-Career:...
- Lady Victoria Burlington - Iván PetrovichIván PetrovichIván Petrovich was a silent-and-sound motion picture Serbian actor....
- Philip Burlington - Shayle GardnerShayle Gardner-Selected filmography:* St. Elmo * The Chinese Bungalow * The Three Passions * Three Live Ghosts * Disraeli * The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu * The Lodger * The Love Test...
- Lord Bellamont - Clare Eames - Lady Bellamont
- Leslie Faber - Father Aloysius
- Gerald FieldingGerald Fielding-Selected filmography:* The Three Passions * Goodbye Love * The Scarlet Empress * The Price of a Song * The Man Behind the Mask * A Chump at Oxford * They Met in Bombay -External links:...
- Bobbie - Andrews Engelmann - Hairless Man