| The White Shadow | |
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| Directed by | Graham Cutts Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Victor Saville |
| Written by | Graham Cutts Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited) Michael Morton (play) |
| Starring | Betty Compson Clive Brook Henry Victor A. B. Imeson |
| Distributed by | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 1923 (UK) 13 October 1924 (US) |
| Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
The White Shadow (1923) is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Betty Compson, Clive Brook, and Henry Victor.[1]
Long thought to have been a completely lost film, in August 2011 the National Film Preservation Foundation announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in the garden shed of Jack Murtagh in Hastings, New Zealand. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive.[2][3][4]
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The plot concerns twin sisters, one good, the other evil.[2]
The film is based on the novel Children of Chance by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock collaborated with Cutts on the film. Cutts and Hitchcock made the film quickly, as they wanted to make use of Betty Compson, who had appeared in their hit Woman to Woman, before she returned to the United States.[5]
The film was made at the Gainsborough Pictures studio in Hoxton, London.[6]
Writing about the film in 1969, producer Michael Balcon said:
"Engrossed in our first production [Woman to Woman], we had made no preparations for the second. Caught on the hop, we rushed into production with a story called The White Shadow. It was as big a flop as Woman to Woman had been a success."[7]
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