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Cocaine Directed by Graham Cutts Produced by Harry B. Parkinson Written by Frank Miller Starring Hilda Bayley
Flora Le Breton
Ward McAllisterDistributed by Astra Films Release date(s) June 1922 Country United Kingdom Language English Cocaine is a 1922 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Hilda Bayley, Flora Le Breton, Ward McAllister and Cyril Raymond. A melodrama – it depicts the distribution of cocaine by gangsters through a series of London nightclubs and the revenge sought by a man after the death of his daughter.
Because of its depiction of drug use, it was the most controversial British film of the 1920s.[1] It was feared by the authorities that it might encourage the spread of narcotics.[2] However, as the film had a clear message about the dangers of using drugs it was eventually passed by the censors in June 1922 and released in some cinemas under the alternative title While London Sleeps.[3]
The Chinese gangster Min Fu was reportedly based on a real-life criminal Brilliant Chang.[4]
Contents
Cast
- Hilda Bayley – Jenny
- Flora Le Breton – Madge Webster
- Ward McAllister – Min Fu
- Cyril Raymond – Stanley
- Tony Fraser – Loki
- Teddy Arundell – Montagu Webster
References
Bibliography
- Robertson, James Crighton. The hidden cinema: British film censorship in action, 1913–1975. Routledge, 1993.
- Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber, 2005.
External links
The films of Graham Cutts 1920s The Wonderful Story (1922) • Cocaine (1922) • Flames of Passion (1922) • Woman to Woman (1923) • The White Shadow (1923) • Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923) • The Prude's Fall (1924) • The Passionate Adventure (1924) • The Blackguard (1925) • The Sea Urchin (1925) • The Rat (1925) • The Triumph of the Rat (1926) • The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) • Die Spielerin (1927) • Glorious Youth (1928) • Confetti (1928) • The Rolling Road (1928) • God's Clay (1928) • The Return of the Rat (1929) •1930s The Temperance Fete (1932) • Looking on the Bright Side (1932) • The Sign of Four (1932) • Three Men in a Boat (1933) • As Good As New (1933) • Love on the Spot (1934) • Oh, Daddy! (1935) • Car of Dreams (1935) • Aren't Men Beasts! (1937) • Over She Goes (1938) • Let's Make a Night of It (1938)1940s She Couldn't Say No (1940) • Just William (1940)Categories:- 1922 films
- British films
- Crime films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Graham Cutts
- 1920s British film stubs
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