Love's Option
1928 film
- 25 September 1928 (1928-09-25)
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Love's Option is a 1928 British silent adventure film directed by George Pearson and starring Dorothy Boyd, Patrick Aherne and James Carew. It was made at Cricklewood Studios based on the novel The Riddle by Douglas Newton. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures' British subsidiary, enabling the company to meet its yearly quota set down by the British government. The film follows several rivals attempting to gain control of a valuable Spanish copper mine. It was known by the alternative title A Girl of Today.
Cast
- Dorothy Boyd as Dorothy
- Patrick Aherne as John Dacre
- James Carew as Simon Wake
- Henry Vibart as Lucien Wake
- Scotch Kelly as Pat Kelly
- Philip Hewland as Tom Bartlett
- Cecil Barry
References
- ^ Chibnall p.258
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
External links
- Love's Option at IMDb
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The films of George Pearson
- The Fool (1913)
- Heroes of the Mine (1913)
- A Study in Scarlet (1914)
- A Cinema Girl's Romance (1915)
- John Halifax, Gentleman (1915)
- Sally Bishop (1916)
- The Romance of Old Bill (1918)
- Garryowen (1920)
- Nothing Else Matters (1920)
- Mary Find the Gold (1921)
- Squibs (1921)
- Mord Em'ly (1922)
- Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart (1922)
- Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922)
- Love, Life and Laughter (1923)
- Squibs M.P. (1923)
- Squibs' Honeymoon (1923)
- Reveille (1924)
- Satan's Sister (1925)
- The Little People (1926)
- Blinkeyes (1926)
- Huntingtower (1927)
- Love's Option (1928)
- Auld Lang Syne (1929)
- East Lynne on the Western Front (1931)
- The Third String (1932)
- A Shot in the Dark (1933)
- The Pointing Finger (1933)
- Whispering Tongues (1934)
- The River Wolves (1934)
- The Four Masked Men (1934)
- Open All Night (1934)
- Gentlemen's Agreement (1935)
- The Ace of Spades (1935)
- That's My Uncle (1935)
- Once a Thief (1935)
- Jubilee Window (1935)
- Checkmate (1935)
- The Secret Voice (1936)
- Wednesday's Luck (1936)
- Murder by Rope (1936)
- Midnight at Madame Tussaud's (1936)
- The Fatal Hour (1937)
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