Roses of Picardy (film)

{{short description|1927 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Roses of Picardy

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| director = Maurice Elvey

| producer = Maurice Elvey
M.A. Wetherell
Victor Saville

| writer = R.H. Mottram (novel)
Gareth Gundrey
Jack Harris
Fred V. Merrick

| starring = Lillian Hall-Davis
John Stuart
Humberston Wright
Jameson Thomas

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| studio = Gaumont British Picture Corporation

| distributor = Gaumont British Distributors

| released = {{Film date|1927|04}}

| runtime = 8,500 feetLow p.440

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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Roses of Picardy is a 1927 British silent war film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, John Stuart and Humberston Wright.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/48894|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115034203/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/48894|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 January 2009|title=Roses of Picardy (1928)|website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk|access-date=10 December 2017}} The title is a reference to the popular First World War song Roses of Picardy. It was based on the novels The Spanish Farm (1924) Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four (1925) by R.H. Mottram. It was made at the Cricklewood Studios in London.

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Bibliography

  • Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.