Doctor Syn (film)

Doctor Syn

Directed by	Roy William Neill
Produced by	Michael Balcon Edward Black
Written by	Roger Burford Michael Hogan Russell Thorndike
Starring	George Arliss Margaret Lockwood John Loder
Music by	Hugh Bath Jack Beaver
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	R.E. Dearing
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Release dates	25 August 1937 (U.K.) 14 November 1937 (U.S.)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Doctor Syn is a 1937 British, black-and-white, adventure, drama historical film, directed by Roy William Neill for Gainsborough Pictures and starring George Arliss (in his last feature film), Margaret Lockwood, Graham Moffatt and Ronald Shiner.^[1] It was produced by Gainsborough Pictures. The film is based on the Doctor Syn novels of Russell Thorndike, set in 18th century Kent. The character of Syn and the events at the film's climax were both softened considerably in comparison to Thorndike's original story.

Plot

Led by Captain Collyer (Roy Emerton), a detachment of Royal Navy tax and revenue officers arrive in the village of Dymchurch on Romney Marsh. The area is notorious for liquor-smuggling and they are on the trail of the culprits. They find a village of apparently honest, pious and simple folk, looked after benevolently by their philanthropic vicar Doctor Syn (Arliss). However Syn is in fact the leader of the smugglers of the parish, using his cover as a man of the cloth to run a profitable ring whose dividends are used to better the lives of the local community. Collyer gradually comes to suspect what is going on, and a series of chases and confrontations takes place across the marshes with Syn and the smugglers always managing narrowly to outwit their pursuers. Collyer finally discovers that Syn is in fact none other than the notorious pirate Captain Clegg, thought to have been executed many years earlier. Still one step ahead, Syn destroys all incriminating evidence and he and his men make their escape.

Cast

George Arliss as Doctor Syn
Margaret Lockwood as Imogene Clegg
John Loder as Denis Cobtree
Roy Emerton as Captain Howard Collyer
Graham Moffatt as Jerry Jerk
George Merritt as Mipps
Athole Stewart as Squire Cobtree
Frederick Burtwell as Rash
Wilson Coleman as Dr. Pepper
Wally Patch as Bo'sun
Muriel George as Mrs. Waggetts
Meinhart Maur as Mulatto

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/31538

External links

Doctor Syn at AllMovie
Doctor Syn at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
Doctor Syn at BritMovie
Doctor Syn at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Roy William Neill

The Price Mark (1917)
Yes or No? (1920)
Something Different (1920)
The Idol of the North (1921)
The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
The Iron Trail (1921)
What's Wrong with the Women? (1922)
The Man from M.A.R.S (1922)
Vanity's Price (1924)
Broken Laws (1924)
Marriage in Transit (1925)
The City (1926)
The Viking (1928)
Wall Street (1929)
The Melody Man (1930)
The Menace (1932)
That's My Boy (1932)
The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
Black Moon (1934)
Jealousy (1934)
The Black Room (1935)
Doctor Syn (1937)
Gypsy (1937)
The Viper (1938)
Thank Evans (1938)
Simply Terrific (1938)
Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (1938)
Everything Happens to Me (1938)
A Gentleman's Gentleman (1939)
Murder Will Out (1939)
Hoots Mon! (1940)
The Good Old Days (1940)
Madame Spy (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Rhythm of the Islands (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
Black Angel (1946)

Films produced by Gainsborough Pictures

The "Gainsborough melodramas"	The Man in Grey (1943) Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944) Fanny by Gaslight (1944) The Wicked Lady (1945) Caravan (1946) Jassy (1947)

Other	The Passionate Adventure (1924) The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Blighty (1927) The Constant Nymph (1928) The First Born (1928) The Return of the Rat (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Night in Montmartre (1931) Hindle Wakes (1931) Jack's the Boy (1932) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Wild Boy (1934) My Old Dutch (1934) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) Doctor Syn (1937) Strange Boarders (1938) The Ghost Train (1941) I Thank You (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) Uncensored (1942) Bees in Paradise (1944) Time Flies (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) Two Thousand Women (1944) Love Story (1944) Waterloo Road (1945) A Place of One's Own (1945) They Were Sisters (1945) The Magic Bow (1946) The Root of All Evil (1947) Dear Murderer (1947) Easy Money (1948) Miranda (1948) My Brother's Keeper (1948) Here Come the Huggetts (1948) Vote for Huggett (1949) It's Not Cricket (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Marry Me! (1949) Christopher Columbus (1949)

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