Cocaine (film)

1922 film by Graham Cutts

Cocaine

1922 trade advertisement

Directed by| Graham Cutts
Written by| Frank Miller
Produced by| Harry B. Parkinson
Starring| Hilda Bayley
Flora Le Breton
Ward McAllister
Distributed by| Astra Films

Release date

* June 1922 (1922-06)

Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

Cocaine is a 1922 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Hilda Bayley, Flora Le Breton, Ward McAllister and Cyril Raymond. It depicts the distribution of cocaine by gangsters through a series of London nightclubs and the revenge a man seeks after his daughter's death.

Because of its depiction of drug use, it was the most controversial British film of the 1920s.[1] Authorities feared that it might encourage the spread of narcotics.[2] However, as it had a clear message about the dangers of drugs, censors eventually passed it in June 1922 and it was released in cinemas under the alternative title While London Sleeps.[3]

The Chinese gangster Min Fu was reportedly based on real-life criminal Brilliant Chang.[4]

## Cast

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* Hilda Bayley as Jenny
* Flora Le Breton as Madge Webster
* Ward McAllister as Min Fu
* Cyril Raymond as Stanley
* Tony Fraser as Loki
* Teddy Arundell as Montagu Webster

## References

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1. ^ Sweet p. 48
2. ^ Sweet p. 50
3. ^ Robertson p. 25
4. ^ Sweet p. 48

## Bibliography

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* Robertson, James Crighton. The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action, 1913–1975. Routledge, 1993.
* Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber, 2005.

## External links

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* Cocaine at IMDb

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Films directed by Graham Cutts

* The Wonderful Story (1922)
* Cocaine (1922)
* Flames of Passion (1922)
* Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923)
* Woman to Woman (1923)
* The White Shadow (1923)
* The Passionate Adventure  (1924)
* The Blackguard (1925)
* The Rat (1925)
* The Prude's Fall (1925)
* The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
* The Sea Urchin (1926)
* The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927)
* The Rolling Road (1927)
* Chance the Idol (1927)
* Confetti (1927)
* God's Clay (1928)
* Glorious Youth (1929)
* The Return of the Rat (1929)
* The Temperance Fête (1932)
* The Sign of Four (1932)
* Love on the Spot (1932)
* Looking on the Bright Side (1932)
* Three Men in a Boat (1933)
* As Good As New (1933)
* Oh, Daddy! (1935)
* Car of Dreams (1935)
* Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
* Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
* Over She Goes (1937)
* She Couldn't Say No (1939)
* Just William (1940)

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