Silver Top is a 1938 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 directed by George King

George King (film director)

George King was an English actors' agent, film director, producer and screenplay writer. He helmed several of Tod Slaughter's melodramas, including 1936's The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.-Career:...

 and starring Marie Wright

Marie Wright

-Selected filmography:* The Kinsman * Mrs. Thompson * Murder! * Up for the Cup * Tilly of Bloomsbury * The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss * Sixty Glorious Years...

, Betty Ann Davies

Betty Ann Davies

-Selected filmography:* My Old Duchess * Death at Broadcasting House * Mountains O'Mourne * It Always Rains on Sunday * Escape * The Passionate Friends * Grand National Night...

, David Farrar

David Farrar

David Farrar was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London.Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus , The Small Back Room , and Gone to Earth .He retired in 1962...

 and Marjorie Taylor.

Synopsis

A gang of criminals decide to swindle an elderly sweet shop owner living in a country village out of her money by producing her "long-lost son" who is really one of their gang. However, once he takes up his disguise he begins to become entranced with the quiet country village and falls in love with the Vicar's daughter. He ends up refusing to help his former criminal associates and reveals his true identity to the villagers.

Cast

• Marie Wright
  Marie Wright
  -Selected filmography:* The Kinsman * Mrs. Thompson * Murder! * Up for the Cup * Tilly of Bloomsbury * The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss * Sixty Glorious Years...
  
   - Mrs Deeping
• Betty Ann Davies
  Betty Ann Davies
  -Selected filmography:* My Old Duchess * Death at Broadcasting House * Mountains O'Mourne * It Always Rains on Sunday * Escape * The Passionate Friends * Grand National Night...
  
   - Dushka Vernon
• Marjorie Taylor - Hazel Summers
• David Farrar
  David Farrar
  David Farrar was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London.Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus , The Small Back Room , and Gone to Earth .He retired in 1962...
  
   - Babe
• Brian Buchel - Flash Gerald
• Bryan Herbert - Jem Withers
• Polly Emery
  Polly Emery
  -Selected filmography:* Watch Your Step * The Case of Lady Camber * Nothing Else Matters * A Sister to Assist 'Er * If Four Walls Told * The Pauper Millionaire * A Sister to Assist 'Er...
  
   - Martha Bains
• Isobel Scaife - Aggie Murbles