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The Last Kiss (1931 film)

1931 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Last Kiss is a 1931 British Indian silent film, directed by Ambuj Gupta. The film was produced by the Nawab family of Dhaka and was the first film to be full-length feature film from eastern Bengal. Shot in Dhaka, post-production work was done in Calcutta. The Last Kiss was released by the Mukul Theater. The film is considered lost.

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“The Last Kiss (1931 film)” enters the record as 1931 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Last, Kiss and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Last, Kiss and film.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Last Kiss (1931 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.