The Lost Chord is a 1933 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring John Stuart, Elizabeth Allan and Jack Hawkins. The screenplay concerns a musician who becomes embroiled in the domestic rows of an aristocratic family. It was inspired by the Arthur Sullivan song The Lost Chord. Two earlier films directed by Wilfred Noy, The Lost Chord (1917) and The Lost Chord (1925), were both also based on the song. The film was made at Twickenham Studios.
Cast John Stuart as David Graham Elizabeth Allan as Joan Elton Mary Glynne as Countess Madeleine Anne Grey as Pauline Leslie Perrins as Count Carol Zara Jack Hawkins as Dr. Jim Selby Garry Marsh as Joseph Mendel Betty Astell as Madge Frederick Ranalow as Beppo Barbara Everest as Mother Superior Bernard Ansell as Benito Levina Eliot Makeham as Bertie Pollard Tudor Davies as The Singer Billy Mayerl as At The Piano
Critical reception In 1937, Variety gave a negative review, and wrote, "Film shortage in the Broadway houses has grown so acute they've resurrected this piece of wreckage out of the past - 1933 and showing its age. No use wasting time and space recounting all the flaws in the pic. Just about everything possible is wrong, from the writing, production, direction, acting, to the final editing. If there are merits, they aren't visible ... If the pic does nothing else, it shows how far film methods have progressed in four years, though even then this would have been a bad production."
References
Bibliography Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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