Wolves (1930 film)
Wolves is a 1930 British crime film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Charles Laughton, Dorothy Gish and Malcolm Keen. The screenplay concerns a woman who is captured by a gang of criminals operating in the Arctic, only for the leader to later help her escape.[1] It was based on a play by Georges Toudouze. It was produced by Herbert Wilcox's British and Dominions Film Corporation, but filmed at the Blattner Studios whilst sound equipment was being installed at Wilcox's nearby Imperial Studios, and the sound was added after filming was completed.[2] It was Gish's first sound film, and was Laughton's second talkie (but his first sound drama), having completed a film of a musical variety performance earlier the same year. Of 57 minutes original duration, it was released in 1936 in a 37-minute version retitled "Wanted Men".
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Directed by | Albert de Courville |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox British and Dominions Film Corporation |
Written by | Reginald Berkeley Georges Toudouze |
Starring | Charles Laughton Dorothy Gish Malcolm Keen |
Cinematography | David Kesson Roy F. Overbaugh |
Production company | Blattner Studios |
Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service J.H. Hoffberg Company |
Release date | May 1930 |
Running time | 57 minutes (1930) 37 minutes (1936) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Cast
- Charles Laughton ... Captain Job
- Dorothy Gish ... Leila McDonald
- Malcolm Keen ... Pierre
- Jack Osterman ... Hank
- Arthur Margetson ... Mark
- Franklyn Bellamy ... Pablo
- Griffith Humphreys ... Semyon
- Andrews Engelmann ... Pfeiffer
- Betty Bolton ... Naroutcha
References
- BFI.org
- "Ludwig Blattner Film Corp." LearnAboutMoviePosters.com (LAMP) , retrieved 13 February 2014