Der rote Kreis (1929)

Directed by

Frederic Zelnik

Genre

silent film, crime film

Country

Weimar Republic, Germany, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Scotland Yard detectives try to stop a gang of blackmailers. The film mixes silent intertitles with spoken dialogue and sound effects.

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What happens

The Crimson Circle (German: Der rote Kreis) 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. The film, a co-production between British International Pictures and Efzet Film. 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. As with most early sound films, a silent version was edited down from the sound version for release to theatres that had not yet converted to sound. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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