Thrust and Parry
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 2 / 6
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- NoS Summary - "Blue Eyes" stars, Evelyn Laye and Barrie Livesey learn to fence with Leon Bertrand.
British Pathe synopsis: Evelyn Laye and Barrie Livesey practice fencing parries. An instructor - the famous fencer Leon Bertrand - demonstrates technique. C/U of Evelyn. We then see them on stage in costume in a duel. Slow motion filming used to show thrust and parry technique. - Keywords
- Sport
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- Kinematograph Weekly 12 July 1928 p56b.
The Bioscope 11 July 1928 p35.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.49
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP049 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p149.
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How to cite this record
'Thrust and Parry', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 370, 5 Jul 1928. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331910 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)