Breakers Ahead (1935 film)

Breakers Ahead
Directed byAnthony Gilkison
Written byAnthony Gilkison
Produced byFraser Foulsham
StarringBarry Livesey
Roddy Hughes
Cicely Oates
Music byCharles Cowlrick
Hubert Bath
Production
company
Anglo-Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed byReunion Films
Release date
  • February 1935 (1935-02)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Breakers Ahead is a 1935 British drama film directed by Anthony Gilkison and starring Barry Livesey, Roddy Hughes and Cicely Oates.[1] It was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie and is also known by the alternative title The Lady of Pendower.[2] It included scenes of Cornish wrestling featuring Francis Gregory.

Synopsis[edit]

In Cornwall two fishermen are bitter rivals. One unsuccessfully tries to drown another. However he later redeems himself by saving the other during a storm at the cost of his own life.

Cast[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Wood p.81
  2. ^ Chibnall p.282
  3. ^ Cornish wrestling in Lady of Pendower, Kinematograph Weekly, 28 June 1934, p37-38.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

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