Blue Bottles (1928)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 26m silent
Director: Ivor Montagu
Cast: Elsa Lanchester, Joe Beckett, Dorice Fordred
Synopsis:
A girl inadvertently alerts the police to a thieves' convention when she blows on a discarded whistle.
Review:
Chaplinesque short, based on a story by H.G. Wells, eliciting plenty of expressive flourishes from its leading lady and displaying considerable virtuosity and inventiveness in its deployment of the camera. The gag writing is witty if unostentatious, and the movie has all the hallmarks of a work made at the peak of the silent era; and it desperately needs sound. Note: the title no doubt refers to the 'boys in blue', swarming around the hapless girl after she blows the whistle.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 26m silent
Director: Ivor Montagu
Cast: Elsa Lanchester, Joe Beckett, Dorice Fordred
Synopsis:
A girl inadvertently alerts the police to a thieves' convention when she blows on a discarded whistle.
Review:
Chaplinesque short, based on a story by H.G. Wells, eliciting plenty of expressive flourishes from its leading lady and displaying considerable virtuosity and inventiveness in its deployment of the camera. The gag writing is witty if unostentatious, and the movie has all the hallmarks of a work made at the peak of the silent era; and it desperately needs sound. Note: the title no doubt refers to the 'boys in blue', swarming around the hapless girl after she blows the whistle.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 26m silent
Director: Ivor Montagu
Cast: Elsa Lanchester, Joe Beckett, Dorice Fordred
Synopsis:
A girl inadvertently alerts the police to a thieves' convention when she blows on a discarded whistle.
Review:
Chaplinesque short, based on a story by H.G. Wells, eliciting plenty of expressive flourishes from its leading lady and displaying considerable virtuosity and inventiveness in its deployment of the camera. The gag writing is witty if unostentatious, and the movie has all the hallmarks of a work made at the peak of the silent era; and it desperately needs sound. Note: the title no doubt refers to the 'boys in blue', swarming around the hapless girl after she blows the whistle.