One of the Best (film)

One of the Best
Directed by	T. Hayes Hunter
Produced by	Michael Balcon Carlyle Blackwell
Written by	George Edwardes-Hall (play) Seymour Hicks (play) Patrick L. Mannock
Starring	Carlyle Blackwell Eve Gray Walter Byron Randle Ayrton
Cinematography	James Wilson
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates	November 1927
Running time	8,000
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

One of the Best is a 1927 British silent historical drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Walter Byron and Eve Gray. It was based on a play by Seymour Hicks. Film historian Rachael Low described it as an "unsophisticated costume drama". The 'drumming out' scene of Lieutenant Keppel was filmed at Hounslow Barracks using the officers and men of the Royal Fusiliers wearing 1820s uniforms.

Cast

• Carlyle Blackwell - Philip Ellsworth
• Walter Byron - Lieutenant Dudley Keppel
• Eve Gray - Mary Penrose
• Randle Ayrton - General Gregg
• James Carew - Colonel Gentry
• Julie Suedo - Claire Melville
• James Lindsay - Maurice de Gruchy
• Pauline Johnson - Esther
• Elsa Lanchester - Kitty
• Charles Emerald - Private Jupp
• Cecil Barry - Lieutenant Wynne
• Simeon Stuart - Squire Penrose
• Harold Huth - Adjutant

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. The History of British Film, Volume 4 1918-1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links

• One of the Best at IMDb