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The Plaything (1929)

The Plaything poster
Directed by
Castleton Knight
Genre
silent film, romance film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 21m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romance about a young woman involved with two men. The story is adapted from a play and is told partly with spoken words and partly with title cards.

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What happens

The Plaything is a 1929 British part-talkie sound romance film directed by Castleton Knight and starring Estelle Brody, Heather Thatcher and Nigel Barrie. The film was a mixture of silent and sound film as it was released during the transition period following Blackmail. It was based on the play Life Is Pretty Much the Same by Arthur Jarvis Black. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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