The Crimson Circle (1929)
Der rote Kreis
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
- Date of release
- 1929-03-25
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Frederic Zelnik
Casting
- Lya Mara — Thalia Drummond
- Fred Louis Lerch — Jack Birdmore
- Stewart Rome — Derrick Yale
- Albert Steinrück — Froyant
- John Castle — Inspektor Parr
- Otto Wallburg — Marl
- Hans Albers — Diener von Marl
- Hans Marlow — Birdmore
- Otto Treßler — Ministerpräsident
- Ilka Grüning — Eine Vermieterin
- Annie Ann — Milly
- Bruno Ziener — Kriminalkommissar
Interesting facts
The Crimson Circle is a 1929 British-German sound part-talkie crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The sound was recorded via the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film is an adaptation of the 1922 Edgar Wallace novel The Crimson Circle in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers. A previous UK version was filmed in 1922.
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