A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

The Clue of the New Pin
(1929) England
B&W : Seven reels / 7292 feet
Directed by Arthur Maude

Cast: Benita Hume, Kim Peacock, Donald Calthrop, John Gielgud, H. Saxon-Snell, Johnny Butt, Colin Kenney, the Hippodrome Chorus

British Lion Film Corporation production; distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation [British]. / Produced by S.W. Smith. Scenario by Kathleen Hayden, from the novel The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace. / Released March 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. British Phototone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / This British synchronized sound film predates Blackmail (1929) by approximately three months. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Death: Murder - Reporters - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 13 May 2010.

References: Gifford-British n. 08583; Ryall-Blackmail pp. 9, 17; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 408 : ClasIm-279 p. 23; ClasIm-301 p. 48 : Website-IMDb.