The Last Rose of Summer (1920 film) explained

The Last Rose of Summer
Director:	Albert Ward
Producer:	G. B. Samuelson
Starring:	Owen Nares Daisy Burrell
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

The Last Rose of Summer is a British silent motion picture of 1920 directed by Albert Ward, produced by G. B. Samuelson, and starring Owen Nares and Daisy Burrell. A drama, it was written by Roland Pertwee, based on a novel by Hugh Conway.

Plot

In The Last Rose of Summer Oliver Selwyn is a collector who woos Lotus Devine, but not for herself alone. The movie has been called "a melodramatic tale of a spinster betrayed for the sake of a valuable teaset".^[1] Denis Gifford says "Collector feigns love for spinster to obtain her father’s tea service."^[2]

Cast

• Daisy Burrell as Lotus Devine^[2]
• Owen Nares as Oliver Selwyn^[2]
• Minna Grey as Amy Palliser^[2]
• Tom Reynolds as Palliser^[2]
• Richard Barry as Alf Purvis^[2]
• John Phelps as Percy Melville^[2]

Notes and References

1. Kenton Bamford, Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s (1999), p. 8
2. [Denis Gifford]