''The Ringer'' is a 1928 British
silent crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...
directed by
Arthur Maude
Arthur John Maude (23 July 1880 – 9 January 1950) was an English actor, screenwriter, and film director.
Biography
Maude was born Arthur John Maud on 23 July 1880 in Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, to William Robert Maud (1849–1919) and ...
starring
Leslie Faber,
Annette Benson
Annette Benson (1895–1965) was a British film actress. She was a leading lady of British silent films of the 1920s, appearing in ''Confetti'' with Jack Buchanan and ''Downhill'' with Ivor Novello. She also featured in several French and German ...
and
Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 - 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Genera ...
. It was based on the 1925
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during th ...
novel ''
The Gaunt Stranger
''The Gaunt Stranger'' (released as ''The Phantom Strikes'' in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde. It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox.
Plot
A notorious killer, long believed to have ...
''.
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs, but not the City of London, the square mile that forms London's ...
hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away. A
talkie
A sound film is a motion picture with 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, but decades passed before ...
version of ''
The Ringer'' followed in 1931.
Cast
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Leslie Faber as Dr. Lamond
*
Annette Benson
Annette Benson (1895–1965) was a British film actress. She was a leading lady of British silent films of the 1920s, appearing in ''Confetti'' with Jack Buchanan and ''Downhill'' with Ivor Novello. She also featured in several French and German ...
as Cora Ann Milton
*
Lawson Butt
W. Lawson Butt (4 March 1880 – 14 January 1956) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.(7 August 1915)W. Lawson Butt with Kleine ''The Moving Picture World''
Selected filmography
Actor
* '' The Woman Next Door'' (1915)
* ''Ro ...
as Maurice Meister
*
Nigel Barrie
Nigel Barrie (5 February 1889, in Calcutta, British India – 8 October 1971, in South Africa) was an Indian-born British actor.
Biography
Barrie's background as a dancer and actor on legitimate stages and in vaudeville in both Great Britain an ...
as Insp. Wembury
*
Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 - 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Genera ...
as Insp. Bliss
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John F. Hamilton as John Lenley
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Charles Emerald as Sam Hackett
*
Esther Rhodes as Gwenda Milton
*
Muriel Angelus
Muriel Angelus (born Muriel E S M Findlay, 10 March 1912 – 26 June 2004) was an English stage, musical theatre, and film actress.
Born in Lambeth, South London, to Scottish parentage, her father was a chemist. She was educated at the Urs ...
as Mary Lenley
See also
* ''
The Ringer'' (1931)
* ''
The Ringer'' (1932)
* ''
The Gaunt Stranger
''The Gaunt Stranger'' (released as ''The Phantom Strikes'' in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde. It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox.
Plot
A notorious killer, long believed to have ...
'' (1938)
* ''
The Ringer'' (1952)
* ''
Der Hexer'' (1964)
References
External links
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1928 films
British crime films
British silent feature films
1928 crime films
Films directed by Arthur Maude
Films based on British novels
Films based on works by Edgar Wallace
Films set in London
British black-and-white films
1920s British films
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