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Under the Greenwood Tree
(1929) England
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Harry Lachman
Cast: Marguerite Allan [Fancy Day], John Batten [Dick Dewey], Nigel Barrie [Shinar], Maud Gill [an old maid], Wilfred Shine [Parson Maybold], Robert Abel [Penny], Antonia Brough [a maid], Tom Coventry [Tranter Dewey], Robison Page [Grandfather Dewey], Tubby Phillips [Tubby], Bill Shine [Leaf], Syd Ellery, Queenie Leighton, Harry Stafford, the Gotham Singers, Peggie Robb-Smith [the voice of Fancy Day]
British International Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Wardour Films, Limited. / Screenplay by Frank Launder and Monckton Hoffe, from the adaptation by Rex Taylor and Harry Lachman of the novel Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy. Art direction by C. Wilfred Arnold. Cinematography by Claude Friese-Greene. Sound effects by Percy Dayton. Film editor, Emile de Ruelle. / Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was released in the USA by British International Pictures [America] on 11 December 1930. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Historical.
Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 1 February 2011.
References: Perry-British p. 334 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Mike Green.
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