Sep 18th
Seventh Heaven**
(US 1927)
Fox. 113m. bw

In 1914 Paris, a girl forced to turn prostitute falls in love with a sewer worker who has rescued her from her vindictive sister, but the war intervenes.
Quite gritty but also poetic silent melodrama (at the onset of sound with added Movietone soundtrack), with occasional good comedy moments amid the generally whimsical tone.

Written by: Benjamin Glazer, Harry H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker, from the play by Austin Strong.
Producer: William Fox.
Director: Frank Borzage.
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, David Butler, Gladys Brockwell, Albert Gran, Emile Chautard, Brandon Hurst, George E. Stone.
Photography: Ernest Palmer, Joseph Valentine.
Production Design: Harry Oliver.

+ the first film to win Oscars for Best Direction, Actress and Adapted Script

Preceded by:
Intimate Interviews: Bela Lugosi*
(US 1931. 7m. bw; As given by an overawed Dorothy West.; d: Grace Elliott.)

SEVENTH HEAVEN - among the opening programme at the Whitehall Cinema in Witham (now a branch of Essex Libraries) in September 1928