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The Crooked Billet
(1929) England
B&W : Eight reels / 7226 feet
Directed by Adrian Brunel

Cast: Carlyle Blackwell [Dietrich Hebburn], Madeleine Carroll [Joan Easton], Miles Mander [Guy Morrow], Gordon Harker [Slick], Kim Peacock [Philip Easton], Danny Green [Rogers], Frank Goldsmith [Sir William Easton], Alexander Field [Alf], Raymond Massey

Gainsborough Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service, Limited. / Produced by Michael Balcon. Scenario by Angus Macphail, from a play by Dion Titherage. Cinematography by Claude L. McDonnell. Film editor, Ian Dalrymple. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Brunel’s last film for Gainsborough. A soundtrack was added in March 1930 with some dialogue scenes reshot; the sound version reduced the image area to 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 19 August 2018.

References: Gifford-British n. 08630; Perry-British pp. 64, 306 : Website-IMDb.