The Grey Glove | |
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![]() Everyone's 22 August 1928 | |
Directed by | Dunstan Webb |
Written by | Gayne Dexter (title)[1] E. V. Timms (story) |
Based on | newspaper serial by E. V. Timms |
Edited by | Mona Donaldson[2] |
Production company | |
Distributed by | J.C. Williamson Films[3] |
Release date | 9 July 1928[4][5] |
Running time | 5,000 feet |
Country | Australia |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The Grey Glove is a 1928 Australian silent film based on a newspaper serial by E. V. Timms.
An amateur detective, John Courtney, tries to catch a mysterious criminal who always leaves a grey glove behind. He tries to protect the mysterious Pauline Hemingway.
His fiancee Margaret becomes jealous and sets off to follow him dressed as a boy.[6][7]
The film was shot at Australasian's Bondi studios.[9] It appears to have been shot prior to August 1926.[10][11]
The film was the first screen appearance of Val Lassau who had been in the chorus of Rose Marie.[12]
It seems there was some extra filming after Christmas 1926.[13]
The Australasian called it "an intriguing tale, in which action and mystery arc pleasantly mingled. Fortunately Mr. Webb has aimed at a mark that is not beyond tbc reach of a producer who has not the elaborate equipment of a costly studio at his disposal, and he has achieved his aim. The acting by a large cast is aa least as good as that in any Australian film."[14]