The Queen Was in the Parlour (film)

{{Short description|1927 film by Graham Cutts}}

{{For|the 1949 film with the same German title|The Last Night (1949 film)}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Queen Was in the Parlour

| image =The Queen Was in the Parlour (film).jpg

| caption =

| director = Graham Cutts

| producer = Michael Balcon
Hermann Fellner
Arnold Pressburger
Josef Somlo

| writer = Fanny Carlsen
Graham Cutts

| starring = Lili Damita
Louis Ralph
Paul Richter
Harry Liedtke

| music = Gustav Gold

| cinematography = Otto Kanturek

| editing =

| studio = Gainsborough Pictures
UFA

| distributor = Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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

| runtime = 7,250 feetLow p.432

| country = United Kingdom
Germany

| language = Silent
English intertitles
German intertitles

| budget =

}}

The Queen Was in the Parlour is a 1927 Anglo-German silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Lili Damita, Louis Ralph and Paul Richter.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115032116/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/47510 BFI.org] and external links It was based on the Noël Coward play The Queen Was in the Parlour. Its German title was Die letzte Nacht.

Production

The film was made as part of an Anglo-German co-production between Gainsborough Pictures and the leading German company UFA. It was shot at UFA's Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.p.Cook p.36-37 It was the first of several co-productions between Gainsborough and German companies.Cook p.64-65

Cast

References

Bibliography

  • Cook, Pam (ed.). Gainsborough Pictures. Casssell, 1997.
  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.