The Crimson Circle (1929 film)

The Crimson Circle
Directed by	Frederic Zelnik
Written by	Fanny Carlsen Howard Caye
Based on	novel The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace
Starring	Lya Mara Fred Louis Lerch Stewart Rome
Cinematography	Frederik Fuglsang Leslie Rowson
Music by	Edmund Meisel
Production companies	British International Pictures British Sound Film Productions Efzet Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Film Union (Germany)
Release date	25 March 1929 (1929-03-25) (Berlin)
Country	Britain/Germany
Languages	Silent, and De Forest Phonofilm

The Crimson Circle (German: Der rote Kreis) is a 1929 British-German crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome. 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, was made in both a silent version and a sound version filmed in the Phonofilm sound-on-film system. 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.

Synopsis

Scotland Yard officers battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

Cast

• Lya Mara as Thalia Drummond
• Fred Louis Lerch as Jack Birdmore
• Stewart Rome as Derrick Yale
• Albert Steinrück as Froyant
• John Castle as Inspektor Parr
• Otto Wallburg as Marl
• Hans Albers as Diener von Marl
• Hans Marlow as Birdmore
• Otto Treßler as Ministerpräsident
• Ilka Grüning as Eine Vermieterin
• Annie Ann as Milly
• Bruno Ziener as Kriminalkommissar
• Hugo Döblin as Pfandleiher
• Ria Weber as Zofe

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

External links

• The Crimson Circle at IMDb
• The Crimson Circle (1929) at SilentEra