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Whitechapel. Eine Kette von Perlen und Abenteuern (1920)

Whitechapel. Eine Kette von Perlen und Abenteuern poster
Directed by
Ewald André Dupont
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 50m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent crime film follows characters in a London variety theater in the Whitechapel district. A chain of pearls and a series of adventures drive the story involving entertainers and criminals.

murkygrittysuspensefulold-fashionedshadowytheatricalnoir-like

What happens

Whitechapel is a 1920 German silent crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Guido Herzfeld, Hans Mierendorff, and Otto Gebühr. The film was set around a variety theatre in London's East End suburb of Whitechapel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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