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Splinters (1929 film)

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Splinters
Directed byJack Raymond
Written byW. P. Lipscomb
Produced byHerbert Wilcox
StarringSydney Howard
Nelson Keys
Carroll Gibbons
CinematographyDavid Kesson
Production
companies
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • 23 December 1929 (1929-12-23)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSound (All-Talking)
English
Budget$175,000[1]
Box office$500,000[1]

Splinters is an all-talking sound 1929 British musical comedy film based on the stage revue Splinters. It was British & Dominions Film Corporation's first all-talking release filmed entirely in the UK. The revue tells the story of the origin of the concert party Splinters created by UK soldiers in France in 1915. The film was followed by two sequels, Splinters in the Navy (1931) and Splinters in the Air (1937).[2][3]

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  1. ^ a b "English Making Money". Variety. 17 September 1930. p. 57.
  2. ^ "Splinters". silentera.con. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Splinters (1929)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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