The Triumph of the Rat [SEP] cast member
The Triumph of the Rat
The Triumph of the Rat is a 1926 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans and Nina Vanna.
Background.
The film is the second in a trilogy featuring Novello as Pierre Boucheron (The Rat), following the popular success of the previous year's "The Rat." Both films were based on plays cowrittened by Ivor Novello, Graham Cutts, Constance Collier and Reginald Fogwell. Jeans also returned to reprise her role
. Marie Ault also appears in all three films. Like its predecessor "The Triumph of the Rat", "The Return of the Rat" does not take the story up from where the previous film had ended, instead opening with a scenario which does not seem to flow logically from the previous film's conclusion. "The Triumph of the Rat" closes with Pierre destitute and on the street, a situation brought about mainly by Zélie's spite and vindictiveness, yet by the start of "The Return of the Rat