Interference
(1928) American
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by Roy J. Pomeroy + [Lothar Mendes]

Cast: William Powell [Philip Voaze], Evelyn Brent [Deborah Kane], Clive Brook [Sir John Marlay], Doris Kenyon [Faith Marlay], Tom Ricketts [Charles Smith], Brandon Hurst [Inspector Haynes], Louis Payne [Childers], Wilfred Noy [Doctor Gray], Donald Stuart [Freddie], Raymond Lawrence [a reporter], Clyde Cook [the hearse driver], Ruth Chatterton, Daniel Frohman

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Louise Long, with dialogue by Ernest Pascal, from the adaptation by Hope Loring of a play by Roland Pertwee and Harold Dearden. Cinematography by Henry Gerrard. Chief recording engineer, Franklin Hansen. Intertitles by Julian Johnson. Original music by W. Franke Harling. Edited by George Nichols Jr. / Premiered 5 November 1928 in Los Angeles, California. Released December 1928. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Originally shot and completed in seven reels by Mendes as a silent film, a full-sound Movietone version was reshot under the supervision of Pomeroy (all dialogue scenes) and released in 1928. Both silent and sound versions were appearently released. Powell’s 35th film. [?] Website-IMDb credits Farciot Edouart and J. Roy Hunt with the cinematography (one version or another?). / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Police: Detectives - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 23 August 2009.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 574; Everson-American p. 310x; Everson-Detective p. 52; Mandelbaum-Screen p. 41; Quirk-Powell pp. 9, 22, 92-94; Sweeney-Coming pp. 141, 144 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.