The Clue of the New Pin (1929 film)
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The Clue of the New Pin is a British
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 crime film
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 directed by Arthur Maude
Arthur Maude
-Selected filmography:Director* The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross * Toni * The Ringer * The Clue of the New Pin * The Flying Squad * The Lyons Mail...

 and starring Benita Hume
Benita Hume
Benita Hume was an English film actress. She appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1955.She was married to actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958; they were the parents of a daughter, Juliet...

, Kim Peacock
Kim Peacock
-External links:...

, and Donald Calthrop
Donald Calthrop
Donald Calthrop was an English stage and film actor. He starred as the title character in the hit musical The Boy in 1917. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.He was born in London and died in Eton from a heart attack.He was the...

. The film was one of the few filmed in British Phototone, a sound-on-disc
Sound-on-disc
The term Sound-on-disc refers to a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture...

 system which used 12-inch discs. In March 1929, this film and The Crimson Circle
Der rote Kreis (1929 film)
Der rote Kreis is a 1929 British-German crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome....

, filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm
Phonofilm
In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...

 sound-on-film
Sound-on-film
Sound-on-film refers to a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physically recorded onto photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture. Sound-on-film processes can either record an analog sound track or digital sound track,...

 system, were previewed.

This film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin (novel)
The Clue of the New Pin is a 1923 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.-Adaptations:The novel has been adapted into film twice:...

by Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....

. It was later remade in 1961
The Clue of the New Pin (1961 film)
The Clue of the New Pin is a British crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Paul Daneman, Bernard Archard and James Villiers....

.

Cast

  • Benita Hume - Ursula Ardfern
  • Kim Peacock
    Kim Peacock
    -External links:...

     - Tab Holland
  • Donald Calthrop
    Donald Calthrop
    Donald Calthrop was an English stage and film actor. He starred as the title character in the hit musical The Boy in 1917. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.He was born in London and died in Eton from a heart attack.He was the...

     - Yeh Ling
  • John Gielgud
    John Gielgud
    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...

     - Rex Trasmere
  • H. Saxon-Snell - Walters
  • Johnny Butt
    Johnny Butt
    -Selected filmography:* Far from the Madding Crowd * Lawyer Quince * Nell Gwyn * Second to None * Passion Island * The Last Post * The Clue of the New Pin -External links:...

     - Wellington Briggs
  • Colin Kenny
    Colin Kenny (actor)
    Colin Kenny was an Irish film actor. He appeared in 167 films between 1918 and 1965. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and died in Los Angeles, California.- Selected filmography :* Tarzan of the Apes - Clayton...

    - Inspector Carver
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