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The First Born
(1928) England
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by Miles Mander

Cast: Miles Mander [Sir Hugo Boycott], Madeleine Carroll [Lady Madeleine Boycott], John Loder [Lord David Harborough], Ella Atherton [Nina de Lande], Margot Armand [Sylvia Findlay], Ivo Dawson [Derek Findlay], Marjorie Roach [Phoebe Chivers], John St. John [Dicky], Naomi Jacobs [Dot], Bernard Vaughan [butler], Walter Wichelow [Impitt], Theodore Mander [Stephen Boycott], Beryl Egerton

Gainsborough Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service, Limited. / Produced by Michael Balcon, C.M. Woolf and Miles Mander. Scenario by Alma Reville and Miles Mander, from the play adaptation The First Born by Miles Mander of the novel The First Born by Miles Mander. Art direction by C. Wilfred Arnold. Cinematography by Walter Blakeley. Still photography by Michael Powell. Intertitles written by Ian Dalrymple. / Released 10 December 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA on 12 January 1929. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 January 2024.

References: Perry-British p. 60j : Website-IMDb.