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The First Born is a 1928 British silent film drama, directed by Miles Mander for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Mander and Madeleine Carroll. The screenplay was also written by Mander in conjunction with Alma Reville. The First Born enjoys a good critical reputation, being seen as stylistically inventive and one of the best examples of a trend in British cinema in the last years of the silent era towards a more mature, sophisticated and naturalistic presentation of dramatic material, eschewing the tendency in earlier silent films towards overly stagey and melodramatic acting styles involving wildly exaggerated gestures and facial expressions.