THE CAVELL FILM

Evening Star, Issue 19803, 29 February 1928, Page 4

THE CAVELL FILM

STATEMENT BY PRODUCER

ACTUAL SHOOTING NOT SHOWN.

LONDON, February 27

Mr Wilcox, replying to Sir Austen Chamberlain, denies supplying the Government adviser with the details described., They do not form part of the film, and wero never taken. He met the adviser only once, when the latter unofficially visited the studio without reference to ‘ Dawn,’ and saw certain scenes of the actual firing party. “ On the command to the firing party 1 Ready 1’ Rammeler’s refusal to shoot is played to where the officer steps forward. The actual .‘ihootmg is not shown, but is merely reflected in the expression of Nurse Oavell, who faints. (The firing party is brought back to * Order,’ and as the officer moves from the side of the firing party the scene is transferred to the Lutheran chaplain’s fate, his expression indicating ;what occurs. Thereafter the scene dissolves -to a line from Rupert Brooke's poem, ‘ln Some Corner of a Foreign Field,’ etc., which dissolves to Nurse jCavell’s grave. The firing party does pot fire over her head, and the officer does not gave the coup do grace. This actual shotting is uot shown, and it is utterly unirue to say that the adviser or any other official has seen the film, though the adviser asked by telephone this afternoon if ho might. lam showing ‘ Dawn ’ privately in Berlin next Sreek.”