Director: Harry Lacham
Release Date: May 1931
An unseen film. The Daily Herald reported, 26 January 1931, that ‘Real life drama was accidentally introduced into the making of a talkie version of Dorothy Brandon’s play, “The Outsider,” at the Grosvenor House Ice Rink yesterday, when a huge arc lamp slipped to the ice and 350 people skated their way to safety. An electrician was struck and injured by a heavy reflector. The rink was taken over for ten hours by a British film company, under the direction of Mr. Harry Jackmann. The regular habitués of the rink were supplemented by a smart crowd of film “supers” in their make-up. During the shooting of the scene 200 society women and 150 film supers were skating on the floor at the same time. Miss Joan Barry, Mr. Harold Huth, Mr. Frank Lawton and Miss Gwen Poynting acted episodes from time to time.’
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Joan Barry, the lead actress in an undated photograph.
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Harold Huth, the lead actor in an undated photograph.
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Action on the Grosvenor House Ice Ring in an image from 1929.