When Chinese pirates capture two British ladies and a fellow naval officer, it's up to a valiant lapdog -- and P.G. Norgate as the valiant Lieutenant Rose -- to rescue them.
Percy Stowe directed, and Mr. Norgate starred in about fifteen short subjects about Lieutenant Rose -- and his crew of Able Seamen and in this case, a valiant lapdog -- from 1910 through 1915 for release through Clarendon. It's clearly shot on cheap studio sets (I could see the backdrop shimmy), but it has some good photographic effects and the sort of simple-minded patriotism that appealed to its British audience back then.
Stowe, who had directed the 1903 ALICE IN WONDERLAND and the cinematically inventive 1908 THE TEMPEST, seems to have spent his last half decade as a house director for Clarendon. He made his last film in 1916 and died three years later.
Percy Stowe directed, and Mr. Norgate starred in about fifteen short subjects about Lieutenant Rose -- and his crew of Able Seamen and in this case, a valiant lapdog -- from 1910 through 1915 for release through Clarendon. It's clearly shot on cheap studio sets (I could see the backdrop shimmy), but it has some good photographic effects and the sort of simple-minded patriotism that appealed to its British audience back then.
Stowe, who had directed the 1903 ALICE IN WONDERLAND and the cinematically inventive 1908 THE TEMPEST, seems to have spent his last half decade as a house director for Clarendon. He made his last film in 1916 and died three years later.
