The Blue Peter | |
Director: | Arthur Rooke |
Starring: | Matheson Lang Gladys Frazin Mary Dibley Cameron Carr |
Studio: | British Filmcraft |
Distributor: | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
Runtime: | 7,665 feet[1] |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles |
The Blue Peter is a 1928 British sound adventure film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Matheson Lang, Gladys Frazin, and Mary Dibley. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film was based on the 1925 play The Blue Peter by E. Temple Thurston.
After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.
The film featured a theme song entitled “Eastern Star” by Fred Elizalde (music) and Pat K. Heale (words).