The Crooked Circle (1932)

Directed by

H. Bruce Humberstone

Genre

comedy film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of amateur detectives investigate a series of mysterious events. The story mixes comedy with a whodunit plot.

lightheartedcomicalplayfulsuspensefulquirkyenergeticwhimsical

What happens

The Crooked Circle is a 1932 American pre-Code film, a comedy-mystery directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. In 1933, The Crooked Circle was the first feature film shown on television. In Los Angeles, the Don Lee Broadcasting System showed the film on March 10, 1933, over their experimental station W6XAO, transmitting an 80-line resolution mechanical television picture to a half-dozen or fewer receiving sets in the greater Los Angeles area. The film was shown again on June 18, 1940 on the NBC Television experimental station WX2BS, now WNBC-TV in New York City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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