The Rising Generation Explained

The Rising Generation
Starring:	Alice Joyce Jameson Thomas Robin Irvine William Freshman
Editing:	George Dewhurst
Studio:	Westminster Films
Distributor:	Williams and Pritchard Films
Runtime:	7,000 feet^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent English intertitles

The Rising Generation is a lost 1928 British silent comedy film directed by Harley Knoles and George Dewhurst and starring Alice Joyce, Jameson Thomas and Robin Irvine.^[2] It was based on a play by Laura Leycester. The screenplay concerns a couple who masquerade as servants.

Cast

• Alice Joyce as Mrs Kent
• Jameson Thomas as Major Kent
• Robin Irvine as George Breese
• William Freshman as Robert Kent
• Joan Barry as Peggy Kent
• Betty Nuthall as School Friend
• Gerald Ames as John Parmoor
• Gerald Rawlinson as Augustus
• Pamela Deane as Friend
• Eric Findon as Friend
• Eugenie Prescott as Maid
• Clare Greet as Cook
• Nervo and Knox as Themselves

Preservation status

• This film is now lost.^[3]

References

1. Low p.436
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090527102439/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/48477 BFI.org
3. https://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/rg.htm The Rising Generation at The Alice Joyce website; by Greta deGroat;Stanford University professor