Shooting Stars (1927 film)

Shooting Stars is a 1927 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and A. V. Bramble and starring Annette Benson, Brian Aherne and Wally Patch. The screenplay concerns a starlet who plots an escape to Hollywood.

Premise
At Zenith Studios, a starlet plots an escape to Hollywood with her lover and the murder of her superfluous husband.

Cast

 * Annette Benson as Mae Feather
 * Brian Aherne as Julian Gordon
 * Donald Calthrop as Andy Wilkes
 * Wally Patch as Property Man
 * David Brooks as Turner
 * Ella Daincourt as Asphodel Smythe, Journalist
 * Chili Bouchier as Winnie, Bathing Beauty
 * Tubby Phillips as Fatty
 * Ian Wilson as Reporter
 * Judd Green as Lighting Man
 * Jack Rawl as Hero

Production
It was Asquith's first film as a director. It was made at Cricklewood Studios in North London for British Instructional Films. The novelisation of the film was written by the popular novelist E. Charles Vivian.

Restoration
Shooting Stars was restored in 2015 by the British Film Institute with a new score by John Altman. The new print premiered as the Archive Gala of the 2015 London Film Festival.