THE WHITE SHADOW (1923, Graham Cutts): More . . .

"In the 1920s, Graham Cutts was ticket-office gold. He was called “a sure-fire maker of box-office attractions” by Kinematograph Weekly, and his Rat trilogy, starring Ivor Novello as an absurdly attractive Parisian jewel thief, is still celebrated and enjoyed today. Cutts’s films are sophisticated, sexual and employ any number of tracking shots, dramatic lighting and off-kilter camera angles to ramp up the tension – and the cinematic pleasure. Yes he worked with Hitchcock as a young man, but also Novello, Noël Coward and Basil Dean. He even made a successful transition to sound – with a career behind the camera that ran into the 40s.

The White Shadow looks like a fascinating find, with Compson playing twin sisters, one good and one evil, and plenty of opportunity for Cutt’s dynamic style to come into play. But please don’t take the credit away from a name that has almost been forgotten and give it to someone who doesn’t deserve it."

from Silent London website

Michael Balcon

The other unsung hero of British film and the Hitchcock story, producer Michael Balcon--the man who shepherded the director's career through the silent period into the sound.  Without Balcon, there is no Hitchcock.

Films as Producer (Features):

Career: 1919—founder, with Victor Saville, Victory Motion Pictures, distributing company; 1921—first film produced, the documentary The Story of Oil ; 1924—founder, with Graham Cutts, Gainsborough Pictures, Islington; 1926—organized Picadilly Pictures with Carlyle Blackwell; 1928—founder, with Maurice Ostrer and C. M. Wolf, Gainsborough Pictures Ltd.; 1931–36—in charge of production for Gaumont-British (who had taken over Gainsborough); 1936–38—head of production for MGM British; 1938–59—head of production for Ealing Studios (later Ealing Films); 1959–75—head of Bryanston Films; 1964–66—Chairman of British Lion. Knighted, 1948. Died: 16 October 1977.

1925

The Rat (Cutts)

1926

The Sea Urchin (Cutts); The Triumph of the Rat (Cutts); The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( The Case of Jonathan Drew ) (Hitchcock); The Mountain Eagle ( Fear o' God ) (Hitchcock)

1927

Blighty (Brunel); Downhill ( When Boys Leave Home ) (Hitch-cock); The Rolling Road (Cutts); Easy Virtue (Hitchcock); One of the Best (Hunter); The Vortex (Brunel)

1928

A South Sea Bubble (Hunter); A Light Woman (Brunel); The First Born (Mander); The Wrecker (von Bolvary)

1929

The Return of the Rat (Cutts); Armistice (Saville); City of Play (Clift); Taxi for Two (Esway); Woman to Woman (Saville)

1930

Just for a Song (Gundrey); The Crooked Billet (Brunel); Journey's End (Whale); Balaclava ( Jaws of Hell ) (Elvey); Symphony in Two Flats (Gundrey); Ashes (Birch); A Warm Corner (Saville)

1931

P. C. Josser (Rosmer); Hot Heir (Kellino); Who Killed Doc Robin? (Kellino); Bull Rushes (Kellino); Third Time Lucky (Forde); The Sport of Kings (Saville); The Stronger Sex (Gundrey); Aroma of the South Seas (Kellino); The Ringer (Frode); The Lady of the Lake(Fitzpatrick); A Night in Montmartre (Hiscott); The Man They Could Not Arrest (Hunter); My Old China (Kellino); The Ghost Train (Forde); Hindle Wakes (Saville); The Calender ( Bachelor's Folly (Hunter); Michael and Mary (Saville); Sunshine Susie ( The Office Girl) (Saville)

1932

Lord Babs (Forde); The Frightened Lady ( Criminal at Large ) (Hunter); The Faithful Heart ( Faithful Hearts ) (Saville); White Face (Hunter); Jack's the Boy ( Night and Day ) (Forde); Love on Wheels (Saville); Marry Me (Thiele); There Goes the Bride (de Courville);Rome Express (Forde); After the Ball (Rosmer); The Midshipman (de Courville)

1933

The Man from Toronto (Hill); The Good Companions (Saville); Soldiers of the King ( The Woman in Command ) (Elvey); King of the Ritz (Gallone); The Lucky Number (Asquith); Sleeping Car (Litvak); It's a Boy (Whelan); Falling for You (Hulbert); Britannia of Billingsgate (Hill); Orders Is Orders (Forde); The Ghoul (Hunter); I Was a Spy (Saville); The Fire Raisers (Powell); Just Smith (Walls); Friday the Thirteenth (Saville); Aunt Sally ( Along Came Sally ) (Whelan); The Constant Nymph (Dean); Turkey Time (Walls)

1934

Jack Ahoy! (Forde); Evergreen (Saville); A Cup of Kindness (Walls); Prince Charming (Elvey); Man of Aran (Flaherty); Wild Boy (de Courville); Chu Chin Chow (Forde); Wings over Everest (Barkas and Montagu); Little Friend (Viertel); My Old Dutch (Hill); Evensong(Saville); Jew Süss ( Power ) (Mendes); The Camels Are Coming (Whelan); Lady in Danger (Walls); Road House (Elvey); The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock); Dirty Work (Walls); Temptation (Neufeld)

1935

The Iron Duke (Saville); Things Are Looking Up (de Courville); Oh, Daddy! (Cutts and Melford); Fighting Stock (Walls); Bulldog Jack ( Alias Bulldog Drummond ) (Forde); Forever England ( Born for Glory; Torpedo Raiders ) (Forde); The 39 Steps (Hitchcock); The Clairvoyant ( The Evil Mind ) (Elvey); Me and Marlborough (Saville); Boys Will Be Boys (Beaudine); Stormy Weather (Walls); Car of Dreams (Cutts and Melford); The Passing of the Third Floor Back (Viertel); The Guv'nor ( Mister Hobo ) (Rosmer); First a Girl(Saville); The Tunnel ( Transatlantic Tunnel ) (Elvey); Foreign Affairs (Walls)

1936

King of the Damned (Forde); Jack of All Trades ( The Two of Us ) (Stevenson and Hulbert); First Offence (Mason); Rhodes of Africa ( Rhodes, the Empire Builder ) (Viertel); Pot Luck (Walls); Tudor Rose ( Nine Days a Queen ) (Stevenson); The Secret Agent(Hitchcock); It's Love Again (Saville); Where There's A Will (Beaudine); Seven Sinners ( Doomed Cargo ) (de Courville); Everything is Thunder (Rosmer); The Flying Doctor (Mander); East Meets West (Mawson); The Man Who Changed His Mind ( The Man Who Lived Again; Doctor Maniac ; Brain Snatcher ) (Stevenson); Everybody Dance (Reisner); All In (Varnel); His Lordship ( Man of Affairs ) (Mason); Strangers on Honeymoon (de Courville); Sabotage ( A Woman Alone ) (Hitchcock); Windbag the Sailor (Beaudine)

1937

O.H.M.S. ( You're in the Army Now ) (Walsh); Head Over Heels (Hale); The Great Barrier ( Silent Barriers ) (Rosmer); King Solomon's Mines (Stevenson)

1938

A Yank at Oxford (Conway); The Gaunt Stranger ( The Phantom Strikes ) (Forde); The Ware Case (Stevenson)

1939

Let's Be Famous (Forde); There Ain't No Justice (Tennyson); The Four Just Men ( The Secret Four ) (Forde); Cheer Boys Cheer (Forde); Young Man's Fancy (Stevenson); Happy Families (Forde)

1940

Return to Yesterday (Stevenson); The Proud Valley (Tennyson); Let George Do It ( Murder in Bergen ) (Varnel); Saloon Bar (Forde); Convoy (Tennyson); Sailors Three ( Three Cockeyed Sailors ) (Forde)

1941

Spare a Copper (Carstairs); The Ghost of St. Michael's (Varnel); Turned Out Nice Again (Varnel); Ships with Wings (Nolbandov); Black Sheep of Whitehall (Dearden and Hay)

1942

The Big Blockade (Frend); The Foreman Went to France ( Somewhere in France ) (Frend); The Next of Kin (Dickinson); The Goose Steps Out (Dearden and Hay); Went the Day Well? ( 48 Hours ) (Cavalcanti)

1943

Nine Men (Watt); The Bells Go Down (Dearden); Undercover ( Underground Guerillas ) (Nolbandov); My Learned Friend (Dearden and Hay)

1944

San Demetrio London (Frend); The Halfway House (Dearden); For Those in Peril (Crichton); The Return of the Vikings (Frend); They Came to a City (Dearden); Champagne Charlie (Cavalcanti); Fiddlers Three (Watt)

1945

Johnny Frenchman (Frend); Painted Boats ( The Girl on the Canal ) (Crichton); Dead of Night (Dearden, Cavalcanti, and Hamer); Pink String and Sealing Wax (Hamer)

1946

The Captive Heart (Dearden); The Overlanders (Watt)

1947

Hue and Cry (Crichton); Nicholas Nickleby ( The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ) (Cavalcanti); The Loves of Joanna Godden (Frend); Frieda (Dearden); It Always Rains on Sunday (Hamer)

1948

Against the Wind (Crichton); Saraband for Dead Lovers ( Saraband ) (Dearden); Another Shore (Crichton); Scott of the Antarctic (Frend)

1949

Eureka Stockade (Watt); Passport to Pimlico (Cornelius); Whiskey Galore! ( Tight Little Island ) (Mackendrick); Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer); Train of Events (Cole, Dearden and Crichton); A Run for Your Money (Frend)

1950

The Blue Lamp (Dearden); Bitter Springs (Smart); Cage of Gold (Dearden); The Magnet (Cole)

1951

Pool of London (Dearden); The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton); The Man in the White Suit (Mackendrick); Where No Vultures Fly ( Ivory Hunter ) (Watt)

1954

Lease of Life (Frend)

1955

The Night My Number Came Up (Norman); Armand and Michaela Denis (series—3 films); Touch and Go ( The Light Touch ) (Truman); The Ladykillers (Mackendrick)

1956

The Feminine Touch ( The Gentle Touch ) (Jackson); The Long Arm ( The Third Key ) (Frend)

1959

The Scapegoat (Hamer)

Films as Producer (Shorts):

1925

Gainsborough Burlesque Films (Brunel)

1926

The Steven Donoghue Series (West)

1929

In a Monastery Garden (Brunel)

1930

Sugar and Spice Series (Oumansky); Gainsborough Gems Series

1931

Harry Lauder Songs Series (Pearson—8)

1940

All Hands (Carstairs); Cable Laying (Carstairs); Dangerous Comment (Carstairs—2); Signals Office (Carstairs); Now You're Talking (Carstairs)

1941

Freedom Must Have Wings (Bennett)

1942

Go to Blazes (Forde); Mighty Penny (Carstairs); Raid on France (Bennett); Meet Mr. Joad (Williams)

1943

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? (Dearden); Save Your Shillings and Smile (Watt); The Saving Grace (Frend); Fleet Air Arm (Bennett)

1944

Journal of Resistance

Films as Co-Producer:

1921

The Story of Oil (Saville); Liquid Sunshine (Saville)

1923

Woman to Woman (Cutts)

1924

The White Shadow ( White Shadows ) (Cutts); The Prude's Fall (Cutts); The Passionate Adventure (Cutts)

1925

The Blackguard (Cutts)

1926

The Pleasure Garden (Hitchcock, his first film as director)

1928

The Constant Nymph (Brunel)

1963

Sammy Going South ( A Boy Ten Feet Tall ) (Mackendrick)

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