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James Harcourt, Margaret Lockwood, Rex Denham Studios Harrison, Paul von Hernried (later Henreid) and seen from the Irene Handl in " Night Train to Munich." air. Right: Vic Oliver, Graham Moffatt, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels in " Hi Gang! ” Michael Redgrave and Albert Lieven in " Jeannie.” Above, centre : Robert Newton, Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller in “ Major Barbara." winner, and gradually tenacity, ingenuity and hard work began to tell. You did not hear quite so often the expression " if it’s a British film, let’s go somewhere else.” The world slump of the late nineteen-twenties arrived with the inevitable consequences. Companies failed, work was suspended, but still films were made and still the quality improved. And talkies brought new hope, if new difficulties, to the situation. In 1927 the British International Studios at Elstree opened, and there, in 1929, Alfred Hitchcock made the first British talkie. Blackmail. At Islington, Henry Ainley made his talkie debut reciting In Flanders Fields in a short made by Gainsborough for Armistice Day. And the same year, so rapidly was the language difficulty realised and experi- ments begun to overcome it, Arnold Bennett’s Piccadilly was produced in three languages, the world’s first tri- lingual talkie. At the bottom of the cast in the English speaking version, by the way, was Charles Laughton as A Continental Visitor. He ate his way steadily through the film—it was all he had to do. There was a frantic rush to wire studios for sound recording, a rush as great as the cinemas to wire for reproduction. Our own stage stars found themselves in unprecedented demand, plays were snapped up and photographed practically as they were written, with little thought for the art of the cinema and the great mobility of the camera. In 1930, among the stage stars who appeared on the screen were Colin Clive, who starred in Journey’s End, Sir John Martin Harvey in The Lyons Mail, Beverly Nichols and Sey- mour Hicks in Glamour, Tom Walls and Yvonne Amaud were a popular team, Ivor Novello, already popular in silent films, strengthened his hold in talkies, Evelyn Laye made her talkie debut in The Luck of the Navy, Eml5m Wil- liams, Jessie Mat- thews, G r a c i e Fields, George Robey—they were