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High Treason

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High Treason - 1929 | 95 mins | Fantasy | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Maurice Elvey.
Producer: L'Estrange Fawcett.
Script: L'Estrange Fawcett. (based on a play by Noel Pemberton-Billing)
Art Direction: Andrew Mazzei.

The Cast

Benita Hume - Evelyn Seymour
Basil Gill President - Stephen Deane
Humberston Wright - Vicar-General Seymour
Jameson Thomas - Michael Deane
Milton Rosmer - Ernest Stratton
Henry Vibart - Lord Sycamore
Irene Rooke - Senator

Plot Synopsis

Futuristic story set in 1940, a group of women called the Peace League try successfully to stop the Second World War breaking out between the two rival superpowers; United Europe and United America.