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Dawn is a British film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Wilcox with Sybil Thorndike

Dawn (1928)

Dawn
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Length 1h30
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Genres Drama,    War
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Dawn is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig and Marie Ault. It was produced by Wilcox for his British & Dominions Film Corporation. The film was made at Cricklewood Studios with sets designed by Clifford Pember.

Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, this film tells the story of World War I martyr Edith Cavell. Sybil Thorndike stars as Cavell, a nurse who risked her own life by rescuing British Prisoners of War from the Germans. When Cavell was captured and sentenced to be executed, it sparked international outrage, even from neutral nations.

One of the most controversial British films of the 1920s, Dawn was censored because of what objectors considered its brutal depiction of warfare and anti-German sentiments. Pressure was exerted by both the German Ambassador and the British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to prevent the film being passed for exhibition.

Wilcox returned to the subject in 1939 with Nurse Edith Cavell starring Anna Neagle.

Actors

Sybil Thorndike

(Nurse Edith Cavell)Marie Ault

(Mme. Rappard)Edward Gordon Craig
Haddon Mason

(German A.P.M.)Chili Bouchier
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