Directed by Frederic Zelnik Initial release 25 March 1929 Music director Edmund Meisel Producer Frederic Zelnik | Music by Edmund Meisel Director Frederic Zelnik Story by Edgar Wallace | |
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Written by Fanny Carlsen
Howard Caye Based on novel The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace Starring Lya Mara
Fred Louis Lerch
Stewart Rome Cinematography Frederik Fuglsang
Leslie Rowson Cast Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, Stewart Rome Similar White Face, The Frog, Der rote Kreis, The Mind of Mr Reeder, We Shall See | ||
The Crimson Circle (German: Der rote Kreis) is a 1929 British-German crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome.
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The film, a co-production between British International Pictures and Efzet Film, was made in both a silent version and a sound version filmed in the Phonofilm sound-on-film system. In March 1929, this film and The Clue of the New Pin, filmed in the British Phototone sound-on-disc process, were previewed in London.
The film is an adaptation of the Edgar Wallace novel The Crimson Circle in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers. A previous UK version was filmed in 1922.
Plot
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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