Ideal Film Company

The Ideal Film Company (often known as Ideal Films or simply Ideal) was a British film production and distribution company that operated between 1911 and 1927. During the Silent era it became one of the leading British production companies, benefiting from the post-First World War boom in films. However the studio was badly hit by the Slump of 1924, and dramatically reduced its film production. In 1927 the company was merged into the British Gaumont empire. Many of the films produced by the company are now considered lost, but a number still survive. Perhaps the company's best known film is The Life Story of David Lloyd George, a 1918 biopic of the British Prime Minister directed by Maurice Elvey.

Selected filmography

• Lady Windermere's Fan (1916)
• Justice (1917)
• Tom Jones (1917)
• Red Pottage (1918)
• The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
• Dombey and Son (1919)
• The Chinese Puzzle (1919)
• Bleak House (1920)
• Lady Audley's Secret (1920)
• Wuthering Heights (1920)
• Ernest Maltravers (1920)
• A Woman of No Importance (1921)
• Sybil (1921)
• Bentley's Conscience (1922)
• A Master of Craft (1922)
• The Card (1922)
• The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923)
• Hutch Stirs 'em Up (1923)
• Hurricane Hutch in Many Adventures (1924)

Bibliography

• Gledhill, Christine. Reframing British Cinema 1918-1928: Between Restraint and Passion. British Film Institute, 2003.
• Low, Rachael. The History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

• Ideal Film Company at IMDB

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