Dawn (1928 film)

Dawn is a 1928 Breetish seelent war film directit bi Herbert Wilcox an starnin Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig an Marie Ault. It wis producit bi Wilcox for his British & Dominions Film Corporation.

Dawn
Directit bi	Herbert Wilcox
Produced bi	Herbert Wilcox
Written bi	Reginald Berkeley (play) Robert Cullen Herbert Wilcox
Starnin	Sybil Thorndike Ada Bodart Gordon Craig Marie Ault
Cinematography	Bernard Knowles
Production company	British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributit bi	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date	1 Mairch 1928
Rinnin time	90 meen.
Kintra	Unitit Kinrick
Leid	Inglis

Based on a play bi Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story o Warld War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nourice wha risked her ain life bi rescuin Breetish preesoners o war frae the Germans. Whan Cavell wis fanged an sentenced tae be executit, it sparked internaitional ootrage, even frae neutral naitions.

Ane o the maist controversial Breetish films o the 1920s, Dawn wis censored acause o whit objectors considert its brutal depiction o warfare an anti-German sentiments. Pressure wis exertit bi baith the German ambassador an the Breetish Furrin Secretar Austen Chamberlain tae prevent the film bein passed for exhibition.

Wilcox retoured tae the subject in 1939 wi Nurse Edith Cavell starnin Anna Neagle.

Cast

(in Inglis)

• Sybil Thorndike - Nurse Edith Cavell
• Ada Bodart - Hersel
• 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 dochter
• 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

Bibliography

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