Cape Forlorn
Cape Forlorn is a 1931 Cinema of [the United Kingdom|British] drama film directed by Ewald [André Dupont] and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter. It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made Le cap perdu and Menschen im Käfig. The film is also known as The Love Storm.
It was based on a stage play by Harvey.
Plot
A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead.Cast
- Fay Compton as Eileen Kell
- Frank Harvey as William Kell
- Ian Hunter as Gordon Kingsley
- Edmund Willard as Henry Cass
- Donald Calthrop as Parsons
Production
Release
The film was originally banned in Australia by the censor but this was overturned on appeal after a number of cuts were agreed upon.Reviews were poor.
Shortly after the film was released in Australia, Harvey appeared in a production of the play at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney. Harvey said this was in part because the film version had so changed his play.