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".Kenton Bamford, Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s (1999), p. 8 Denis Gifford says "Collector feigns love for spinster to obtain her father’s tea service."Denis Gifford, British Film Catalogue (Routledge, 2016), p. 4226
Cast
Daisy Burrell as Lotus Devine Owen Nares as Oliver Selwyn Minna Grey as Amy Palliser Tom Reynolds as Palliser Richard Barry as Alf Purvis John Phelps as Percy Melville
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