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The Wrecker
Also known as Der Würger in Germany
(1928) England/Germany
B&W : Seven reels / 6670 feet
Directed by G.M. Bolvary (Géza M. von Bolvary)
Cast: Carlyle Blackwell [Ambrose Barney], Benita Hume [Mary Shelton], Winter Hall [Sir Gervaise Bartlett], Joseph Striker [Roger ‘Lucky’ Doyle], Leonard Thompson [Rameses Ratchett], Gordon Harker [William, the liftman], Pauline Johnson [Beryl Matchley], Paul Cavanaugh [the radio announcer]
Gainsborough Pictures, Limited, and F.P.S.-Film Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung production; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service [A Gainsborough Picture] (United Kingdom) and Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA] (Germany). / Produced by Michael Balcon. Screen play (scenario) by Angus MacPhail, from the play The Wrecker by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale. Production management by S.C. Balcon. Art direction by O.F. Werndorff (Oscar Friedrich Werndorff). Assistant director, Chandos Balcon. Cinematography by Otto Kanturek. Camera assistants, Bert Evans and Alan McNab. Film editor, Arthur Tavares. Intertitles written by Reginald Berkeley. Presented by C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Tiffany-Stahl Productions, Incorporated, on 17 August 1929 in an RCA Photophone synchronized music and sound effects version [A Tiffany-Tone Production]. / Silent film.
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: Prints exist [16mm reduction positive; Pathéscope 9.5mm reduction positive (abridged)].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Transportation: Trains
Listing updated: 5 June 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Limbacher-Feature p. 281; Shipman-Cinema p. 101 : ClasIm-279 p. 23 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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