Carry On (film)

Carry On is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Dinah Shurey and starring Moore Marriott, Trilby Clark and Alf Goddard.

Carry On
Directed byDinah Shurey
Produced byDinah Shurey
Victor Peers
Written byLydia Hayward
Dinah Shurey
StarringMoore Marriott
Trilby Clark
Alf Goddard
Johnny Butt
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Randal Terraneau
Production
company
Britannia Films
Distributed byGaumont British Distributors
Release date
December 1927
Running time
7,050 feet[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Production

Carry On! deals with British military experiences in the First World War. For the production, Shurey borrowed warships from the Royal Navy.[2]

In 1928, one of the cast, the Australian Leal Douglas, described the picture as “a British propaganda film”.[3]

Cast

References

  1. Low p.345
  2. Bibi Berki, “The Film Society, 1930” in Film International 16, no. 3 (1 September 2018), 12
  3. “Miss Leal Douglas, Australian film actress, returns”, The Brisbane Courier, 15 November 1927, p. 20

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918–1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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