Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Departures
  • Fatherhood
  • Lucky, Apartment
  • Manok
  • To Our Friends
  • Body to Live In (A)
  • Few Feet Away (A)
  • Truth or Dare
  • Where You Find Me
  • How to Live
  • Janine Moves to the Country
  • Ice Tower (The)
  • Houses
  • Hot Milk
  • Habibi, Song for my friends
  • Four Mothers
  • No Beast. So Fierce
  • Night Stage
  • Nature of Invisible Things (The)
  • Lakeview
  • Trio Hall (The)
  • Rebrand (The)
  • Queerpanorama
  • Where the Night Stands Still
  • Two Times João Liberada
  • Vermiglio
  • O'Dessa
  • Mami Wata
  • Invisible Boys
  • Clay Men
  • Black Theta
  • Blind Love
  • Gay Men’s Book Club
  • Sparrow in the Chimney (The)
  • One dances, the Other doesn't
  • White Roses, Fall!
  • ¡Homofobia!
  • Virdee
  • Down in the Valley
  • Sweethearts

Borderline

Country: UK, Language: English, 63 mins

  • Director: Kenneth MacPherson
  • Writer: Kenneth MacPherson
  • Producer: Kenneth MacPherson

CGiii Comment

Experimental, silent and without inter-titles...incomprehensible and monotonous.
 
Paul Robeson - the voice - his first film appearance in a totally redundant experiment.

The voice is silent...a nonsense.


Trailer...

 

The(ir) Blurb...

Adah, a black woman, has an affair with Thorne, a white man, much to the dismay of some of the prejudiced townsfolk and Thorne's wife, Astrid. Adah attempts a reconciliation with her man, Pete, but eventually leaves him and the town. Meanwhile, Astrid goes mad and cuts Thorne's face and arm with a knife, but then mysteriously dies. Thorne is tried but acquitted. Because of the events, the mayor sends Pete a letter asking him to leave town for the good of all concerned.

Cast & Characters

Paul Robeson as Pete Varond, a Negro;
Eslanda Robeson as Adah, a Negro Woman;
Hilda Doolittle as Astrid;
Gavin Arthur as Thorne, Astrid's Husband;
Charlotte Arthur as The Barmaid;
Blanche Lewin as The Old Lady;
Winifred Ellerman