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The Perfect Crime
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6331 feet
Directed by Bert Glennon
Cast: Clive Brook [Benson], Irene Rich [Stella], Ethel Wales [Mrs. Frisbie], Carroll Nye [Trevor], Gladys McConnell [Mrs. Trevor], Edmund Breese [Wilmot], James Farley [Jones], Phil Gastrock [butler], Tully Marshall [Mr. Frisbie], Jane La Verne [the Trevor baby], Jane Peters (Carole Lombard) [extra]
[?] FBO Pictures Corporation? production; distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO]. / Scenario by Ewart Adamson, with dialogue by Victor Currier, from the adaptation by William Le Baron of the novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill. Assistant director, Charles Kerr. Cinematography by James Howe (James Wong Howe). Film editor, Archie F. Marshek. Intertitles written by Randolph Bartlett. / Premiered 4 August 1928 in New York, New York. / Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format [?] and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in 1928. According to Cooper-Dark p. 216, Allan Dwan was associated with this film but he was — in fact — the director of The Perfect Crime (1921). / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 19 September 2008.
References: Cooper-Dark p. 216; Jewell-RKO p. 72; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 436 : Website-AFI.
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