The Yellow Mask
1930 film
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The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.[2] A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel The Traitor's Gate.,[3] adapted into the play The Yellow Mask, which premiered in London in 1928.[4]
Harry Lachman (adaptation)
Miles Malleson (dialogue)
George Arthurs (dialogue)
Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation)
| The Yellow Mask | |
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| Directed by | Harry Lachman |
| Written by | George Arthurs Harry Lachman (adaptation) Miles Malleson (dialogue) George Arthurs (dialogue) Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation) |
| Screenplay by | Val Valentine |
| Based on | play by Edgar Wallace |
| Produced by | John Maxwell |
| Starring | Lupino Lane Dorothy Seacombe Warwick Ward Wilfred Temple |
| Cinematography | Walter Blakeley Claude Friese-Greene |
| Edited by | Edward B. Jarvis |
| Music by | John Reynders |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000[1] |
| Box office | $300,000[1] |
Cast
- Lupino Lane as Sam Slipper
- Dorothy Seacombe as Mary Trayne
- Warwick Ward as Li San
- Haddon Mason as Ralph Carn
- Wilfred Temple as John Carn
- Frank Cochrane as Ah-Song
- Wallace Lupino as Steward
- Bill Shine (actor) as Sunshine
- Winnie Collins as Molly
Reception
Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity."[5] The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning."[6]