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City of Play

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City of Play

Directed by	Denison Clift
Written by	Denison Clift Angus MacPhail
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Chili Bouchier Patrick Aherne James Carew
Cinematography	Claude L. McDonnell
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf and Freedman
Release date	1 July 1929 (1929-07-01)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English

City of Play is a 1929 British part-talkie sound drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Chili Bouchier, Patrick Aherne and Lawson Butt.^[1] It was made by Gainsborough Pictures and produced by Michael Balcon. The film featured a few sequences with dialogue and singing while the remaining film used English intertitles along with a musical score and sound effects.^[2]

Cast[edit]

Chili Bouchier as Ariel
Patrick Aherne as Richard von Rolf
Lawson Butt as Tambourini
James Carew as Gen. von Rolf
Harold Huth as Arezzi
Andrews Engelmann as Colonel von Lessing
Leila Dresner as Zelah
Olaf Hytten as Schulz

See also[edit]

List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References[edit]

^ BFI.org

^ Low p.205

Bibliography[edit]

Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links[edit]

City of PlayatIMDb

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Films directed by Denison Clift

The Last Straw (1920)
The Iron Heart (1920)
The Diamond Necklace (1921)
Demos (1921)
A Woman of No Importance (1921)
Sonia (1921)
The Old Wives' Tale (1921)
Bentley's Conscience (1922)
Diana of the Crossways (1922)
A Bill of Divorcement (1922)
This Freedom (1923)
Out to Win (1923)
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923)
Honor Among Men (1924)
Great Diamond Mystery (1924)
Flames of Desire (1924)
Ports of Call (1925)
Paradise (1928)
High Seas (1929)
Taxi for Two (1929)
City of Play (1929)
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935)

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