The Yellow Mask

The Yellow Mask
Directed by	Harry Lachman
Produced by	John Maxwell
Written by	George Arthurs; Harry Lachman (adaptation); Miles Malleson (dialogue); George Arthurs (dialogue); Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation)
Screenplay by	Val Valentine
Based on	play by Edgar Wallace
Starring	Lupino Lane; Dorothy Seacombe; Warwick Ward; Wilfred Temple
Music by	John Reynders
Cinematography	Walter Blakeley; Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Edward B. Jarvis
Production; company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK)
Release date	1930;
Running time	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.[1] 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.,[2] adapted into the play The Yellow Mask, which premiered in London in 1928.[3]

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."[4] 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."[5]

References

"The Yellow Mask". British Film Institute. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
"Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
https://footlightnotes.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/phyllis-dare-1890-1975-english-star-of-musical/
"THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald". eBay. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
"Movie Review - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation". The New York Times. 8 December 1930. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

External links

The Yellow Mask at IMDb

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[1] "The Yellow Mask". British Film Institute. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[2] "Yellow Mask, The (1930) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[3] ttps://footlightnotes.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/phyllis-dare-1890-1975-english-star-of-musical/

[4] "THE YELLOW MASK 1930 Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe, Warwick Ward herald". eBay. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[5] "Movie Review - EDGAR WALLACE FILM GIVEN; "The Yellow Mask," at Cohan, Is New British Importation". The New York Times. 8 December 1930. Retrieved 10 September 2018.