Dawn (1928 film)

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Dawn
Directed by	Herbert Wilcox
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Written by	Reginald Berkeley (play) Robert Cullen Herbert Wilcox
Starring	Sybil Thorndike Ada Bodart Gordon Craig Marie Ault
Cinematography	Bernard Knowles
Studio	British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates	1 March 1928
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Dawn is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig and Marie Ault. It was produced by Wilcox for his British & Dominions Film Corporation. The film was made at Cricklewood Studios with sets designed by Clifford Pember.

Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story of World War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nurse who risked her own life by rescuing British Prisoners of War from the Germans. When Cavell was captured and sentenced to be executed, it sparked international outrage, even from neutral nations.

One of the most controversial British films of the 1920s, Dawn was censored because of what objectors considered its brutal depiction of warfare and anti-German sentiments. Pressure was exerted by both the German Ambassador and the British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to prevent the film being passed for exhibition.^[1]

Wilcox returned to the subject in 1939 with Nurse Edith Cavell starring Anna Neagle.

Cast

Sybil Thorndike - Nurse Edith Cavell
Ada Bodart - Herself
Gordon Craig - Philippe Bodart
Marie Ault - Mme. Rappard
Mickey Brantford - Jacques Rappard
Mary Brough - Mme. Pitou
Richard Worth - Jean Pitou - Bargekeeper
Colin Bell - Widow Deveaux
Dacia Deane - Mme. Deveaux's Daughter
Cecil Barry - Col. Schultz
Frank Perfitt - Gen. von Zauberzweig
Haddon Mason - German A.P.M.
Maurice Braddell - British Airman
Edward O'Neill - Lutheran Priest
Griffith Humphreys - President of the Court Martial
Edward Sorley - German Soldier

References

↑ Low p.66-68

External links

Dawn at the Internet Movie Database

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
This'll Make You Whistle (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with the Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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