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The School for Scandal
(1923) England
B&W : Seven reels / 6350 feet
Directed by Bertram Phillips
Cast: Queenie Thomas [Lady Teazle], Frank Stanmore [Sir Peter Teazle], Basil Rathbone [Joseph Surface], John Stuart [Charles Surface], [?] Sydney Paxton or Sidney Paxton? [Sir Oliver Surface], A.G. Poulton [Moses], Elsie French [Lady Sneerwell], Mary Brough [Mrs. Candour], Jack Miller [Trip], Billie Shotter [Maria], Lottie Blackford [Aunt Agatha], Richard Turner [Sir Benjamin Backbite], Kimber Philips (Tubby Phillips) [Sir Harry Bumper], James Reardon [Crabtree], Wallace Bosco [Snake]
B.P. Productions production; distributed by Butcher’s Kinemagraphic Distributors, Limited. / Produced by Bertram Phillips. Scenario by Frank Miller, from the play The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. / Premiered September 1923 in London, England. General release, 4 February 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Rathbone’s third film. The play was previously filmed as The School for Scandal (1923).
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists [incomplete 9.5mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 13 November 2022.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3885; Gifford-British n. 07723 : Website-IMDb.
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