One of the Best (film)

One of the Best
Directed by	T. Hayes Hunter
Produced by	Michael Balcon Carlyle Blackwell
Written by	George Edwardes-Hall (play) Seymour Hicks (play) Patrick L. Mannock
Starring	Carlyle Blackwell Eve Gray Walter Byron Randle Ayrton
Cinematography	James Wilson
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates	November 1927
Running time	8,000 ^[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

One of the Best is a 1927 British silent historical drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Walter Byron and Eve Gray.^[2] It was based on a play by Seymour Hicks. Film historian Rachael Low described it as an "unsophisticated costume drama".^[3] The 'drumming out' scene of Lieutenant Keppel was filmed at Hounslow Barracks using the officers and men of the Royal Fusiliers wearing 1820s uniforms.

Cast

Carlyle Blackwell - Philip Ellsworth
Walter Byron - Lieutenant Dudley Keppel
Eve Gray - Mary Penrose
Randle Ayrton - General Gregg
James Carew - Colonel Gentry
Julie Suedo - Claire Melville
James Lindsay - Maurice de Gruchy
Pauline Johnson - Esther
Elsa Lanchester - Kitty
Charles Emerald - Private Jupp
Cecil Barry - Lieutenant Wynne
Simeon Stuart - Squire Penrose
Harold Huth - Adjutant

References

↑ Low p.422
↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/45084
↑ Low p.169

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. The History of British Film, Volume 4 1918-1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links

One of the Best at the Internet Movie Database

The films of T. Hayes Hunter

Lime Kiln Field Day (1913, unfinished)
Fire and Sword (1914)
The Seats of the Mighty (1914)
Judy Forgot (1915)
Father and Son (1916)
The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916)
The Border Legion (1918)
Once to Every Man (1918)
Desert Gold (1919)
The Cup of Fury (1920)
Earthbound (1920)
The Light in the Clearing (1921)
Damaged Hearts (1924)
The Recoil (1924)
Trouping with Ellen (1924)
The Sky Raider (1925)
Wildfire (1925)
One of the Best (1927)
A South Sea Bubble (1928)
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1928)
The Silver King (1929)
The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1931)
The Calendar (1931)
The Frightened Lady (1932)
White Face (1932)
Sally Bishop (1932)
The Ghoul (1933)
Warn London (1934)
The Green Pack (1934)
Josser on the Farm (1934)

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