| 词条 | Dawn (1928 film) |
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| name = Dawn | image = File:Movie_poster_for_1928_silent_film_Dawn.jpg | image_size = | caption = Movie poster | director = Herbert Wilcox | producer = Herbert Wilcox | writer = Reginald Berkeley (play) Robert Cullen Herbert Wilcox | starring = Sybil Thorndike Ada Bodart Gordon Craig Marie Ault | music = | cinematography = Bernard Knowles | editing = | studio = British & Dominions Film Corporation | distributor = Woolf & Freedman Film Service | released = 1 March 1928 | runtime = 90 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Dawn is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig and Marie Ault. It was produced by Wilcox for his British & Dominions Film Corporation. The film was made at Cricklewood Studios with sets designed by Clifford Pember. Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story of World War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nurse who risked her own life by rescuing British Prisoners of War from the Germans. When Cavell was captured and sentenced to be executed, it sparked international outrage, even from neutral nations. ProductionHerbert Wilcox had just made Mumsie (1927), starring Pauline Frederick. Wilcox wanted to make another film with Frederick and suggested Noël Coward's The Vortex but Frederick disliked the role. Wilcox then saw the statue of Edith Cavell in London and decided to make a film of her life. Frederick was enthusiastic at first but dropped out. Some claimed it was because there was an outcry at the thought of an American playing Cavell.[1] Wilcox claims Frederick was scared off after the German ambassador said that Germany would boycott her films.[2] She was replaced with Sybil Thorndike. Filming proved difficult. CensorshipOne of the most controversial British films of the 1920s, Dawn was censored because of what objectors considered its brutal depiction of warfare and anti-German sentiment. Pressure was exerted by both the German Ambassador and the British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to prevent the film being passed for exhibition.[3] Edith Cavell's sister criticised the film saying it would promote hate.[4] However, George Bernard Shaw praised the film.[5] When eventually released, the film was a big success. Wilcox returned to the subject in 1939 with Nurse Edith Cavell starring Anna Neagle. Cast
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59180826 |title=Bittiard-Marker Who Became Famous Film Producer |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=2374 |location=Western Australia |date=8 August 1943 |accessdate=17 August 2017 |page=7 (THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE) |via=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^Wilcox p 73 3. ^Low p.66-68 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129308979 |title=EDITH CAVELL FILM |newspaper=The News |volume=X |issue=1,430 |location=Adelaide |date=13 February 1928 |accessdate=17 August 2017 |page=7|edition=HOME |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224973919 |title=GEORGE BERNARD SHAW CALLS PRODUCER OF "DAWN" A FILM POET |newspaper=The Gundagai Independent |volume=, |issue=3080 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 September 1929 |accessdate=17 August 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} External links
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