Der rote Kreis (1929 film)

Der rote Kreis
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
Music by	Edmund Meisel
Cinematography	Frederik Fuglsang Leslie Rowson
Production company	British International Pictures British Sound Film Productions Efzet Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Film Union (Germany)
Release dates	25 March 1929 (Berlin)
Country	Britain/Germany
Language	Silent, and De Forest Phonofilm

Der rote Kreis (English: The Crimson Circle) 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.

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.

Cast

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

External links

• Der rote Kreis at IMDb
• The Crimson Circle (1929) at SilentEra