The Crimson Circle (1929 film)

The Crimson Circle
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 (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, 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.^[1]

The film is an adaptation of the Edgar Wallace novel The Crimson Circle in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers. A previous UK version was filmed in 1922.

Plot

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

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