Cape Forlorn

Cape Forlorn is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter.^[1] It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made Le cap perdu and Menschen im Käfig.

Plot

A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead.

Selected cast

• Fay Compton – Eileen Kell
• Frank Harvey – William Kell
• Ian Hunter – Gordon Kingsley
• Edmund Willard – Henry Cass
• Donald Calthrop – Parsons
• Jerome Vincent

Original play

The movie was based on a play which premiered in 1930. It was written by Frank Harvey who appeared in the original cast.

Production

Shooting took place in late 1930^[3] and it was made in English, French and German.^[4]

Release

The film was originally banned in Australia by the censor^[5] but this was overturned on appeal after a number of cuts were agreed upon.^[6]

Reviews were poor.^[7]

Shortly after the film was released in Australia, Harvey appeared in a production of the play at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney.^[8] Harvey said this was in part because the film version had so changed his play.^[9]

References

1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28642
2. ↑ ""STRONG MEAT".". The Daily News. Perth: National Library of Australia. 3 April 1930. p. 1 Edition: HOME FINAL EDITION. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
3. ↑ "BRITISH FILMS.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 5 December 1930. p. 17. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
4. ↑ "UNORTHODOX.". The Daily News. Perth: National Library of Australia. 27 March 1931. p. 11 Edition: HOME (FINAL) EDITION. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
5. ↑ "FILMS BANNED.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 10 April 1931. p. 9. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
6. ↑ ""CAPE FORLORN.".". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 25 April 1931. p. 15. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
7. ↑ "NEW FILMS.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 4 May 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
8. ↑ "Advertising.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 18 August 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 
9. ↑ ""CAPE FORLORN.".". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 31 August 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2012. 

External links

• Cape Forlorn at the Internet Movie Database