Golden Dawn
About Golden Dawn
At a German post in Africa during the First World War, Dawn, a white girl raised by Mooda, loves Tom Allen, an English planter held as a prisoner. Shep Keyes wants her and finds she is promised to the god Mulunghu. Tom is sent back to England. When the English take the post, Shep turns a drought against Dawn. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was taken from a white trader as a baby and finds her at a convent. A storm breaks the drought after she refuses the god, and Tom claims her.
Cast & crew
More about Golden Dawn
Ray Enright directed. Walter Anthony wrote the script from the 1927 stage musical. Photographed entirely in Technicolor. Herbert Stothart composed. Warner Bros. released it on June 14, 1930. Vivienne Segal plays Dawn. Walter Woolf King plays Tom. Noah Beery plays Shep. Alice Gentle plays Mooda. Lupino Lane and Nina Quartero are billed. A pre-Code operetta.
Themes
Look
Shot entirely in Technicolor.
Music
Herbert Stothart wrote the score, from the 1927 stage operetta.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The whole picture is Technicolor, not a color sequence inside a black-and-white film.
- The stage show opened in 1927. The film is 1930.
- Beery is Shep, the man who stirs the drought.
- Segal is Dawn. King is Tom Allen.
Scenes
- Shep learns Dawn loves Tom on the eve of the ceremony.
- The storm hits after she refuses the god.
Influenced by
- The 1927 stage musical Golden Dawn
