Troublesome Wives
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Troublesome Wives is a 1928 British
silent
comedy film
directed by Harry Hughes
and starring Eric Bransby Williams
, Mabel Poulton
and Lilian Oldland
. It was based on the play Summer Lightning by Ernest Denny. Two housewives become embroiled with a foreign spy network.
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 film
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...
directed by Harry Hughes
Harry Hughes (director)
-Selected filmography:* Virginia's Husband * Troublesome Wives * Song at Eventide * The Improper Duchess * Tropical Trouble * The Gables Mystery * Mountains O'Mourne...
and starring Eric Bransby Williams
Eric Bransby Williams
Eric Bransby Williams was a British actor. He was the son of Bransby Williams.-Selected filmography:* His Grace Gives Notice * The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP * The Secret Kingdom...
, Mabel Poulton
Mabel Poulton
Mabel Poulton was an English film actress, popular in Britain during the era of silent films.Born in London, England, Poulton was working as a stenographer and entered films by chance. Her first role in George Pearson's Nothing Else Matters was opposite Betty Balfour, who was also making her...
and Lilian Oldland
Lilian Oldland
Lilian Oldland was a British actress who appeared in more than twenty films between 1925 and 1935. Born in Gloucester in 1903, she made her film debut in The Secret Kingdom and was soon cast as a regular in the Bindle Series of films. In 1930 she changed her name to Mary Newland and was credited...
. It was based on the play Summer Lightning by Ernest Denny. Two housewives become embroiled with a foreign spy network.
Cast
- Eric Bransby WilliamsEric Bransby WilliamsEric Bransby Williams was a British actor. He was the son of Bransby Williams.-Selected filmography:* His Grace Gives Notice * The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP * The Secret Kingdom...
- Eric Paget - Mabel PoultonMabel PoultonMabel Poulton was an English film actress, popular in Britain during the era of silent films.Born in London, England, Poulton was working as a stenographer and entered films by chance. Her first role in George Pearson's Nothing Else Matters was opposite Betty Balfour, who was also making her...
- Betty Paget - Lilian OldlandLilian OldlandLilian Oldland was a British actress who appeared in more than twenty films between 1925 and 1935. Born in Gloucester in 1903, she made her film debut in The Secret Kingdom and was soon cast as a regular in the Bindle Series of films. In 1930 she changed her name to Mary Newland and was credited...
- Norah Cameron - Roy Russell - Alec Cameron
- Reginald FoxReginald Fox-Selected filmography:* Daniel Deronda * The Kensington Mystery * Livingstone * Robinson Crusoe * Troublesome Wives * The American Prisoner * The Compulsory Husband...
- Maxwell - Marie AultMarie AultMarie Ault was a British actress.Born at Wigan, Lancashire, she was a star in many British films of the silent era but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog directed by Alfred Hitchcock.She also had bit parts in films such as Jamaica...
- Aunt Mary