The Yellow Mask
{{short description|1930 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Yellow Mask
| image = "The_Yellow_Mask"_(1930).jpg
| caption =
| director = Harry Lachman
| producer = John Maxwell
| writer = George Arthurs
Harry Lachman (adaptation)
Miles Malleson (dialogue)
George Arthurs (dialogue)
Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation)
| screenplay = Val Valentine
| based_on = play by Edgar Wallace
| starring = Lupino Lane
Dorothy Seacombe
Warwick Ward
Wilfred Temple
| music = John Reynders
| cinematography = Walter Blakeley
Claude Friese-Greene
| editing = Edward B. Jarvis
| studio = British International Pictures
| distributor = Wardour Films (UK)
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1930|7|30}}
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
}}
The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb50916|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910061100/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb50916|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 September 2018|title=The Yellow Mask|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=10 September 2018}} A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel The Traitor's Gate.,{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96394/the-yellow-mask|title=Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=10 September 2018}} adapted into the play The Yellow Mask, which premiered in London in 1928.{{cite web | url=https://footlightnotes.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/phyllis-dare-1890-1975-english-star-of-musical/ | title=Phyllis Dare in Edgar Wallace's the Yellow Mask, London, 1928 | date=6 October 2014 }}
Cast
- Lupino Lane as Sam Slipper
- Dorothy Seacombe as Mary Trayne
- Warwick Ward as Li San
- Haddon Mason as Ralph Carn
- Wilfred Temple as John Carn
- Frank Cochrane as Ah-Song
- Wallace Lupino as Steward
- Bill Shine (actor) as Sunshine
- Winnie Collins as Molly
Reception
Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity."{{cite web|url=http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-YELLOW-MASK-1930-Lupino-Lane-Dorothy-Seacombe-Warwick-Ward-herald-/390826621507|title=THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald|work=eBay|access-date=10 September 2018}} The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C01E3D71138E03ABC4053DFB467838B629EDE|title=Movie Review - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 December 1930|access-date=10 September 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0021564}}
{{Edgar Wallace}}
{{Harry Lachman}}
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Category:Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
Category:Films directed by Harry Lachman
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:British musical films
Category:Films shot at British International Pictures Studios
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films scored by John Reynders