Film Record: Hand of Fate, The

Identifier:

• AV14/2/V1 (Source: Wessex Film & Sound Archive )

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Robert Torrens

Production credits:

• Dora A Phillips, camera
• Karl Seal, actor
• Ken Riley, actor
• Phyllis Baker, actor
• Robert G. Torrens, actor

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:09:35

Format:

9.5mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"This tragedy begins with teary goodbyes as two lovers part – Joe is off to America to seek his fortune. In a letter to Beth, Joe says he’ll write again when he's ready for her to come and be his bride. She replies that unless she hears from him soon she will end it all. No reply arrives so Beth drowns herself in a river. Back in America, Joe receives his lover's final letter, which causes him to jump off a suspension bridge. If only they’d known about the incompetence of the Post Office" (BFI Player Online).

"an original story adapted from a newspaper report of a double tragedy caused by a lost letter" (HMHT 1933: 154).

Resources:

Anon. Home Movies and Home Talkies. Sep (1933): 154.
BFI Player Online.
Wessex Film & Sound Archive Online

Locations:

• Wimborne Minster, Dorset, UK. (Filming)

Club Affiliation:

Crystal Productions Ltd.

Subjects:

• Death

Genre:

• Melodrama

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Wessex Film & Sound Archive

Video Link:

• bfi.org.uk

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