The Ringer (1931)

Directed by

Walter Forde

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Scotland Yard detectives try to catch a dangerous criminal who has come back to England. The story is based on a play and a novel by Edgar Wallace.

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What happens

The Ringer is a 1931 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden and Carol Goodner. Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England. The film was based on the 1925 Edgar Wallace story The Gaunt Stranger, which is the basis for his play The Ringer. Forde remade the same story in 1938 as The Gaunt Stranger. There was also a silent film of The Ringer in 1928, and a 1952 version starring Donald Wolfit. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios in Buckinghamshire by Gainsborough Pictures in a co-production with British Lion Films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold. The author's son Bryan Edgar Wallace acted as a production manager. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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