The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934 film)

The Silence of Dean Maitland
Directed byKen G. Hall
Written byGayne Dexter
Edmund Barclay
Based onplay adapted from the novel by Maxwell Gray
Produced byKen G. Hall
StarringJohn Longden
Jocelyn Howarth
Bill Kerr
CinematographyFrank Hurley
Edited byWilliam Shepherd
Music byHamilton Webber
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Empire Films (Australia)
RKO (England)
Release dates
  • May 1934 (1934-05) (Australia)
  • 1935 (1935) (UK)
Running time
97 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£10,132[1][2][3][4]
Box office£33,000 (Aust)[5][6]
£40,000 (UK)[7][6]

The Silence of Dean Maitland is a 1934 Australian film directed by Ken G. Hall, and based on Maxwell Gray's 1886 novel of the same name. It was one of the most popular Australian films of the 1930s.

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  6. ^ a b "CINESOUND CAVALCADE", The Home: An Australian Quarterly, 18 (6), Sydney: Art in Australia, 1 June 1937, nla.obj-389169660, retrieved 2 May 2023 – via Trove
  7. ^ Ken G. Hall, Directed by Ken G. Hall, Landsdowne Press, 1977 p88.