At war’s end, Summers worked briefly for Cecil Hepworth, and then the Territorial Unit in India before making contact with producer/director George B. Samuelson.
Samuelson hired Summers as a writer, primarily on films starring the popular actress Lillian Hall-Davis such as Maisie’s Marriage (1923).
A plaque commemorating Summers appears on the wall of 10 Parkway in Welwyn Garden City, a house he occupied with his family for a period in the 1940s.
[5] Tiring of Samuelson’s on-again, off-again production schedule, Summers left and worked on a couple of features for even smaller concerns before landing at British Instructional Films (BIF).
Summers went into the sound era continuing his string of successes, including Chamber of Horrors (1929, the last British silent), Lost Patrol (1929, later remade by John Ford as The Lost Patrol), Raise the Roof (1930, starring Betty Balfour and regarded as the first British musical), The Flame of Love (1930) starring Anna May Wong, and Suspense (1930), a psychological thriller set in the trenches of World War I.
According to a report in The Times, the woman "was desirous of becoming a film actress and was introduced to Captain Summers, who gave her a test before the camera in a studio in London.