Zero (1928 film) explained

Zero
Director:	Jack Raymond
Producer:	James B. Sloan
Based On:	the novel Zero by H. Collinson Owen
Starring:	Stewart Rome Fay Compton Jeanne De Casalis Sam Livesey
Studio:	Film Manufacturing Company
Distributor:	First National-Pathé Pictures
Runtime:	8,159 feet^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent English intertitles

Zero is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Stewart Rome, Fay Compton and Jeanne De Casalis.^[2] Based on the 1927 novel by H. Collinson Owen, it was made at Cricklewood Studios.^[3]

Premise

A writer fakes his own death and establishes a new identity in order to live with his mistress, but he returns to his wife when she becomes ill.

Cast

• Stewart Rome as John Garth
• Fay Compton as Mrs Garth
• Jeanne De Casalis as Julia Norton
• Sam Livesey as Monty Sterling
• Dorinea Shirley as Veronica Sterling
• Joseph R. Tozer as Major Potterton
• Lewis Shaw as Victor Garth

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918–1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

Notes and References

1. Low p.486
2. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | ZERO (1928) . https://web.archive.org/web/20090114015801/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/406298 . dead . 14 January 2009 . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk . 16 April 2009 . 19 January 2013.
3. Web site: Zero by Collinson Owen - AbeBooks.