crime film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...
directed by
Walter Forde
Walter Forde (born Thomas Seymour Woolford, 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984) was a British actor, screenwriter and Film director, director. Born in Lambeth, South London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the silent era ...
and starring
Lillian Rich
Lillian Rose Rich (1 January 1900 – 5 January 1954) was an English-born actress of the silent film, silent era. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1919 and 1940.
Biography
Rich was born in Herne Hill, London, on 1 January 1900. I ...
Arthur Pusey
Arthur Pusey (July 1896 – 1965) was a British stage and film actor.
He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and died in London.
Selected filmography
* '' The Barton Mystery'' (1920)
* '' The Bachelor's Club'' (1921)
* '' The Other Person'' ...
. It was made at the
Nettlefold Studios
Walton Studios, previously named Hepworth Studios and Nettlefold Studios, was a film production studio in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England.Walton. It was based on the novel ''Nearer! Nearer! '' by J. Randolph James.Goble p.925 The film was produced just as the change to
sound film
A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, bu ...
s was taking place in Britain.
Premise
A
Japan
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ese
merchant
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attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.
Cast
*
Lillian Rich
Lillian Rose Rich (1 January 1900 – 5 January 1954) was an English-born actress of the silent film, silent era. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1919 and 1940.
Biography
Rich was born in Herne Hill, London, on 1 January 1900. I ...
as Sylvia Radshaw
* Frank Perfitt as Gregory Marston
*
Arthur Pusey
Arthur Pusey (July 1896 – 1965) was a British stage and film actor.
He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and died in London.
Selected filmography
* '' The Barton Mystery'' (1920)
* '' The Bachelor's Club'' (1921)
* '' The Other Person'' ...
as Paul Gordon
* Frank Stanmore as Martin Radshaw
* Kiyoshi Takase as Tamira
*
Gabrielle Brune
Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, Hampshire – 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex) was a British actress.
Career
On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the West End, on Broadway, in films and on t ...
* Harold Saxon-Snell
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.