''Smashing Through'' is a 1929 British
silent adventure film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
W. P. Kellino and starring
John Stuart,
Eve Gray and
Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 – 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Gene ...
. It was made at
Lime Grove Studios in
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush is a suburb of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Although primarily residential in character, its ...
.
Cast
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John Stuart as Richard Bristol
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Eve Gray as Kitty Masters
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Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 – 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Gene ...
as James Masters, her brother
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Julie Suedo as Miss Duprez
* Sandy McKenzie as Mr. Sergius
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Alf Goddard as Alf, a mechanic
* Mike Johnson as His mate
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Gladys Hamer as Ethyl
* Charles Ashton as Westlake
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Harold Saxon-Snell as Driver
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918–1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
External links
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1929 films
1929 adventure films
British silent feature films
1920s English-language films
Films directed by W. P. Kellino
Films shot at Lime Grove Studios
British black-and-white films
1920s British films
Silent British adventure films
English-language adventure films
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