Cape Forlorn

United Kingdom, 1931

Film
A black film poster of the film Cape Forlorn, with the title of the film in the beam of a lighthouse. Above it is a white man and woman embracing in the clouds with the words They were swept away on an undercurrent of tense emotion
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William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion…

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Credits

director

E.A. Dupont

producer

E.A. Dupont

production company

British International Pictures

screenplay

E.A. Dupont

Victor Kendall

writer

Frank Harvey

Duration

01:22:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1931

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-269489

Language

English

Subject category

Drama

TMDB-Movie

269489

Wikidata

Q5034810

Collected

77 times

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