How Kitchener Was Betrayed

How Kitchener Was Betrayed
Directed by	Percy Nash
Written by	Norman Ramsey
Starring	Fred Paul Winifred Evans Bertram Burleigh
Production company	Screen Plays
Distributed by	British Exhibitors' Films
Release dates	November 1922
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

How Kitchener Was Betrayed is a 1921 British silent war film directed by Percy Nash and starring Fred Paul, Winifred Evans and Bertram Burleigh.^[1] It was a fictional portrayal of the events leading up to the death of Herbert Kitchener on HMS Hampshire during the First World War in which the German secret service received warning of the General's activities through a German agent Elbie Böcker. The film was intended to cash in on the controversy raised by the publication of a biography of Kitchener in 1920 challenging the Admiralty's official conclusion that the ship was sunk by a mine.^[2] Only one of its six reels survives.^[3]

Controversy

The film's plot raised objections from a number of figures on the grounds of historical inaccuracy and it was refused a licence by the London County Council (LCC) authorities, effectively barring its distribution throughout Britain. Pressure was also successfully exerted on William Hays of the Motion Picture Association of America to ban the film in the United States and the French authorities also refused to screen it. The film's delayed premiere took place at Leicester Square in November 1922, and the LCC immediately took legal action against the cinema owner who conceded the case. No further attempts were made to release the film.^[4] This put in place an effective ban on controversial contemporary history films until the release of Herbert Wilcox's Dawn in 1928.

Cast

Fred Paul - Field Marshal Kitchener
Winifred Evans - Elbie Böcker
Bertram Burleigh - Lieutenant Mack
Peggy Hathaway - Mrs. Mack
Ian Swinley - The Spy
Wallace Bosco
Frank Goldsmith

Bibliography

Robertson, James Crighton. The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action, 1913-1975. Routledge, 1993.

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/238208
↑ Robertson p.17-19
↑ Robertson p.20
↑ Robertson p.18-20

External links

How Kitchener Was Betrayed at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Percy Nash

The Golden Chance (1913)
Monty's Proposal (1913)
Black-Eyed Susan (1913)
The Harbour Lights (1914)
Enoch Arden (1914)
The Waifs (1915)
The Mesmerist (1915)
The Love of Their Lives (1915)
Bunting's Blink (1915)
A Strong Argument (1915)
A Rogue's Wife (1915)
The Little Minister (1915)
Taking a Film (1915)
Sisters (1915)
Just in Time (1915)
Her First Husband (1915)
Did He? The Brute! (1915)
Chicken Hearted (1915)
The Romany Rye (1915)
Rosy Rapture (1915)
Master and Man (1915)
Flying from Justice (1915)
The Coal King (1915)
The Black Night (1916)
Sul trapezio (1916)
Nella jungla nera (1916)
I briganti (1916)
L'isola delle rose (1916)
Il potere sovrano (1916)
Disraeli (1916)
Motherhood (1917)
Boy Scouts Be Prepared (1917)
A King of the People (1917)
Herself (1917)
Boys of the Otter Patrol (1918)
Westward Ho! (1919)
Her Lonely Soldier (1919)
Darby and Joan (1919)
Women Who Win (1919)
The Elder Miss Blossom (1919)
The Flag Lieutenant (1919)
Won by a Head (1920)
The Story of the Rosary (1920)
The Old Arm Chair (1920)
Rodney Stone (1920)
Hobson's Choice (1920)
The Likeness of the Night (1921)
The Croxley Master (1921)
Ships That Pass in the Night (1921)
How Kitchener Was Betrayed (1921)
His Other Wife (1921)

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