- Dawn (1928 film)
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Dawn is a 1928 silent film from the British and Dominions Film Corporation, produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox.
Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story of World War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nurse who risked her own life by rescuing British Prisoners of War from the Germans. When Cavell was captured and sentenced to be executed, it sparked international outrage, even from neutral nations.
One of the most controversial British films of the 1920s, Dawn was heavily censored because of its brutal depiction of warfare and anti-German sentiments.
Wilcox returned to the subject in 1939 with Nurse Edith Cavell starring Anna Neagle.
The films of Herbert Wilcox 1920s Chu-Chin-Chow (1923) • Southern Love (1924) • Decameron Nights (1924) • Nell Gwyn (1926) • London (1926) • Mumsie (1927) • Tip Toes (1927) • Madame Pompadour (1927) • The Only Way (1927) • Dawn (1928) • The Bondman (1929) • The Woman in White (1929)1930s The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) • The Chance of a Night Time (1931) • Carnival (1931) • The Blue Danube (1932) • Goodnight, Vienna (1932) • Money Means Nothing (1932) • The King's Cup (1933) • The Little Damozel (1933) • Bitter Sweet (1933) • Yes, Mr. Brown (1933) • The Queen's Affair (1934) • Nell Gwyn (1934) • Peg of Old Drury (1935) • Three Maxims (1936) • London Melody (1937) • Limelight (1937) • Victoria the Great (1937) • Sixty Glorious Years (1938) • This'll Make You Whistle (1938) • Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)1940s Irene (1940) • No, No, Nanette (1940) • Sunny (1941) • They Flew Alone (1942) • Forever and a Day (1943) • Yellow Canary (1943) • I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) • Piccadilly Incident (1946) • The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947) • Spring in Park Lane (1948) • Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) • Maytime in Mayfair (1949)1950s Odette (1950) • Into the Blue (1950) • The Lady with the Lamp (1951) • Derby Day (1952) • Trent's Last Case (1952) • Laughing Anne (1953) • Trouble in the Glen (1954) • Lilacs in the Spring (1954) • King's Rhapsody (1955) • My Teenage Daughter (1956) • These Dangerous Years (1957) • The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) Wonderful Things! (1958) • The Lady Is a Square (1959) • The Heart of a Man (1959)Categories: 1928 films | British films | British silent films | Black-and-white films | Films directed by Herbert Wilcox | World War I films based on actual events | 1920s British film stubs
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