The Last Rose of Summer (1920 film)

The Last Rose of Summer
Directed byAlbert Ward[1]
Written byRoland Pertwee[1]
Hugh Conway (novel)[2]
Produced byG. B. Samuelson[1]
StarringOwen Nares[1]
Daisy Burrell[1]
Release date
  • 1920 (1920)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Last Rose of Summer is a British silent motion picture of 1920 directed by Albert Ward, produced by G. B. Samuelson, and starring Owen Nares and Daisy Burrell. A drama, it was written by Roland Pertwee, based on a novel by Hugh Conway.

Plot

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In The Last Rose of Summer Oliver Selwyn is a collector who woos Lotus Devine, but not for herself alone. The movie has been called "a melodramatic tale of a spinster betrayed for the sake of a valuable teaset".[3] Denis Gifford says "Collector feigns love for spinster to obtain her father’s tea service."[1]

Cast

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Daisy Burrell in 1919, on the cover of Pictures and Picturegoer

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Denis Gifford, British Film Catalogue (Routledge, 2016), p. 4226
  2. ^ Alan Goble, The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film (Walter de Gruyter, 2011), p. 92
  3. ^ Kenton Bamford, Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s (1999), p. 8
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