Shooting Stars | |
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Directed by |
Anthony Asquith A. V. Bramble |
Written by |
Anthony Asquith John Orton |
Produced by | Harry Bruce Woolfe |
Starring |
Annette Benson Brian Aherne Donald Calthrop Wally Patch |
Cinematography |
Henry Harris Stanley Rodwell |
Production company | |
Distributed by | New Era Films Aywon Pictures (US) |
Release date | 10 June 1928 (US) |
Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Shooting Stars is a 1927 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and A. V. Bramble and starring Annette Benson, Brian Aherne and Wally Patch. [1] The screenplay concerns a starlet who plots an escape to Hollywood.
At Zenith Studios, a starlet plots an escape to Hollywood with her lover and the murder of her superfluous husband.
It was Asquith's first film as a director. It was made at Cricklewood Studios in North London for British Instructional Films. The novelisation of the film was written by the popular novelist E. Charles Vivian. [2]
Shooting Stars was restored in 2015 by the British Film Institute with a new score by John Altman. The new print premiered as the Archive Gala of the 2015 London Film Festival.