White Heat (1926 film)
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White Heat is a 1926 British
drama film
directed by Thomas Bentley
and starring Juliette Compton
, Wyndham Standing
and George Bellamy. A dancer becomes romantically involved with a producer.
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...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, The Man in the Street , The Antidote , and Acci-Dental Treatment .Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer,...
and starring Juliette Compton
Juliette Compton
Juliette Compton was an American actress whose career began in the silent film era and concluded with That Hamilton Woman in 1941....
, Wyndham Standing
Wyndham Standing
Wyndham Standing was an English film actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1915 and 1948. A popular and much beloved leading man in the silent film era, he starred and costarred along many famous names of the day, both men and women. He and Ronald Colman were the stars of the now lost classic...
and George Bellamy. A dancer becomes romantically involved with a producer.
Cast
- Juliette ComptonJuliette ComptonJuliette Compton was an American actress whose career began in the silent film era and concluded with That Hamilton Woman in 1941....
- Helen - Wyndham StandingWyndham StandingWyndham Standing was an English film actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1915 and 1948. A popular and much beloved leading man in the silent film era, he starred and costarred along many famous names of the day, both men and women. He and Ronald Colman were the stars of the now lost classic...
- Gilbert Gillman - Vesta Sylva - Eve Storer
- Walter Butler - Julian Jefferson
- Bertram BurleighBertram Burleigh-Selected filmography:* Mrs. Thompson * Garryowen * How Kitchener Was Betrayed * Open Country * Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep * Becket...
- Phil Storer - George Bellamy - Mr. Storey
- Wellington Briggs - Hall
- Estelle BrodyEstelle BrodyEstelle Brody was an American actress who became one of the biggest female stars of British silent film in the latter half of the 1920s...
- Ninon - Alf GoddardAlf GoddardAlf Goddard was a British film actor.Brother of a famous boxer, Alf Goddard was once a boxer too. He was also a trained athlete and a professional dancer. He served in the army in World War I and when he was invalided out he worked on munitions. He made his stage debut in a musical hall act in 1916...
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