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Red Aces (1930)

Red Aces poster
Directed by
Edgar Wallace
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime story set in the silent film era. A detective named J.G. Reeder investigates a case involving a group of shady characters.

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What happens

Red Aces is a 1930 British silent crime film directed by Edgar Wallace and starring Janice Adair, Muriel Angelus and Nigel Bruce. It was adapted by Wallace from his 1929 novel Red Aces, featuring the character of J.G. Reeder. It was shot at Beaconsfield Studios where Wallace had established a company British Lion Films to film versions of his works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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