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
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

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

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 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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