Interference (film)

Interference is an early sound film drama released in 1928 and starring William Powell and Evelyn Brent. This was Paramount Pictures first ever full talking movie. It was also simultaneously filmed as a silent. The film was based on the play Interference, a Play in Three Acts by Roland Pertwee and Howard Dearden. When a first husband turns out not to be dead, blackmail leads to murder.

The silentera.com website has stage actress Ruth Chatterton and theatrical impresario Daniel Frohman as appearing in this film.

Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.