Breakers Ahead (1935 film)

Breakers Ahead
Directed byAnthony Gilkison
Written byAnthony Gilkison
Produced byFraser Foulsham
StarringBarry Livesey
Roddy Hughes
Cicely Oates
Music byCharles Cowlrick
Hubert Bath
Production
company
Anglo-Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed byReunion Films
Release date
  • February 1935 (1935-02)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Breakers Ahead is a 1935 British drama film directed by Anthony Gilkison and starring Barry Livesey, Roddy Hughes and Cicely Oates.[1] It was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie and is also known by the alternative title The Lady of Pendower.[2] It included scenes of Cornish wrestling featuring Francis Gregory.

Synopsis

In Cornwall two fishermen are bitter rivals. One unsuccessfully tries to drown another. However he later redeems himself by saving the other during a storm at the cost of his own life.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Wood p.81
  2. ^ Chibnall p.282
  3. ^ Cornish wrestling in Lady of Pendower, Kinematograph Weekly, 28 June 1934, p37-38.

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.


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