Huntingtower

Huntingtower (1927)★ 6.0/10

GB · 72 min · December 1, 1927

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Drama

Directed by: George Pearson

Written by: John Buchan, Charles E. Whittaker

A retired grocer and Gorbels boys save a Russian prince from Bolsheviks.

Original title
Huntingtower
Storyline
The hero is a 55-year-old grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero. The story revolves around the imprisonment under false pretenses by Bolshevik agents of an exiled Russian noblewoman.
Rating
6.0 / 10 · 16
Companies
Welsh-Pearson, Paramount British Pictures
Release dates
  • GB December 1, 1927