Under the Greenwood Tree (1929 film)

(Redirected from Under the Greenwood Tree (film)) 1929 film

Under the Greenwood Tree

Directed by	Harry Lachman
Written by	Monckton Hoffe Harry Lachman Frank Launder Rex Taylor
Based on	Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Starring	Marguerite Allan Nigel Barrie Wilfred Shine
Cinematography	Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Emile de Ruelle
Music by	Hubert Bath John Reynders
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films
Release date	5 September 1929 (1929-09-05)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English

Under the Greenwood Tree is a 1929 British sound part-talkie historical drama film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Marguerite Allan, Nigel Barrie and Wilfred Shine. It is an adaptation of the 1872 novel Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy.

Production and release

The film's sets were designed by Wilfred Arnold. It was made at Elstree Studios by the leading British company of the era British International Pictures. It was originally intended to be a silent film, but following the arrival of sound, songs and dialogue were added using the RCA system. It was released in September 1929, around the same time as The American Prisoner, both films following on from the company's first sound release, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, in June.

A review in Close Up suggested it "has perhaps the best direction yet produced from a British studio".

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918–1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

v t e Films directed by Harry Lachman
Weekend Wives (1929) Under the Greenwood Tree (1929) The Compulsory Husband (1930) Song of Soho (1930) The Yellow Mask (1930) The Love Habit (1931) The Outsider (1931) The Man at Midnight (1931) Mistigri (1931) Aren't We All? (1932) The Dressmaker of Luneville (1932) Down Our Street (1932) Insult (1932) The Beautiful Sailor (1932) Face in the Sky (1933) Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) George White's Scandals (1934) I Like It That Way (1934) Baby Take a Bow (1934) Nothing More Than a Woman (1934) George White's 1935 Scandals (1935) Dante's Inferno (1935) Dressed to Thrill (1935) Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) Our Relations (1936) The Man Who Lived Twice (1936) When You're in Love (1937) The Devil Is Driving (1937) It Happened in Hollywood (1937) No Time to Marry (1938) They Came by Night (1940) Murder Over New York (1940) Dead Men Tell (1941) Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) Castle in the Desert (1942) The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)

Films directed by Harry Lachman

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Together

Writers only	Facing the Music (1933) Twelve Good Men (1936) Seven Sinners (1936) The Lady Vanishes (1938) Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939) They Came by Night (1940) Night Train to Munich (1940) The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) The Green Man (1956)
Directed together	Partners in Crime (1942 short) Millions Like Us (1943) The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Directed by Gilliat	The Rake's Progress (1945) Green for Danger (1946) London Belongs to Me (1948) State Secret (1950) The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) The Constant Husband (1955) Fortune Is a Woman (1956) Left Right and Centre (1959) Only Two Can Play (1962) Endless Night (1972)
Directed by Launder	I See a Dark Stranger (1946) Captain Boycott (1947) The Blue Lagoon (1949) The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) Folly to Be Wise (1952) The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) Geordie (1955) Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957) The Bridal Path (1959) The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960) Joey Boy (1965)
Producers only	The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) Ooh… You Are Awful (1972)

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