Shurey often calls upon themes surrounding the British war within her films, tending to take on a more melodramatic narrative style.
[1][2] Born in 1888 into a comfortable middle-class family, Shurey's father Harry was a magazine and penny paper publisher.
Some of Edgar Wallace's Sanders of the River stories first appeared in Harry Shurey's magazine The Weekly Tale Teller which was published from 8 May 1909 to 29 April 1916 (365 issues).
During the First World War, Dinah Shurey worked for the French Red Cross as a canteen worker.
According to Berki, Shurey's dedication to her filming process was expressed in her interview with Banbury Advertiser in 1927, in which she described the making of Second to None.
[7] The film describes the story of twin brothers during the First World War who get wrapped up with the Bolshevik General Strike while both pursuing the same woman.
A Decided Negative From A Woman Who Knows.” The article stated: It is pathetically obvious that women can’t produce films.
[11] Paul Rotha compared Shurey to Harry Bruce Woolfe, calling her "an upstanding Empire loyalist" who "had made some quite atrocious films".