Squibs
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
Genre: Uncategorized
Director: Henry Edwards
Actors: Betty Balfour, Drusilla Wills, Gordon Harker, Margaret Yarde, Michael Shepley, Morris Harvey, O.B. Clarence, Ronald Shiner, Stanley Holloway, Thomas Weguelin
Release: 1935
IMDb: 5.9
Illuminated Texts
“Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism.” – Art Gallery of Ontario
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