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City of Play
Directed by	Denison Clift
Written by	Denison Clift Angus MacPhail
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Chili Bouchier Patrick Aherne James Carew
Cinematography	Claude L. McDonnell
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf and Freedman
Release date	1 July 1929 (1929-07-01)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English

City of Play is a 1929 British part-talkie sound drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Chili Bouchier, Patrick Aherne and Lawson Butt.^[1] It was made by Gainsborough Pictures and produced by Michael Balcon. The film featured a few sequences with dialogue and singing while the remaining film used English intertitles along with a musical score and sound effects.^[2]

• Chili Bouchier as Ariel
• Patrick Aherne as Richard von Rolf
• Lawson Butt as Tambourini
• James Carew as Gen. von Rolf
• Harold Huth as Arezzi
• Andrews Engelmann as Colonel von Lessing
• Leila Dresner as Zelah
• Olaf Hytten as Schulz

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

• Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

• City of Play at IMDb

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