The Last Rose of Summer (1920 film)
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.
| The Last Rose of Summer | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Albert Ward[1] |
| Written by | Roland Pertwee[1] Hugh Conway (novel)[2] |
| Produced by | G. B. Samuelson[1] |
| Starring | Owen Nares[1] Daisy Burrell[1] |
Release date | 1920 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot
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
Daisy Burrell in 1919, on the cover of Pictures and Picturegoer
- Daisy Burrell as Lotus Devine[1]
- Owen Nares as Oliver Selwyn[1]
- Minna Grey as Amy Palliser[1]
- Tom Reynolds as Palliser[1]
- Richard Barry as Alf Purvis[1]
- John Phelps as Percy Melville[1]
Notes
- Denis Gifford, British Film Catalogue (Routledge, 2016), p. 4226
- Alan Goble, The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film (Walter de Gruyter, 2011), p. 92
- Kenton Bamford, Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s (1999), p. 8
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