The Clue of the New Pin (1929 film)

The Clue of the New Pin is a 1929 all-talking sound British crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Benita Hume, Kim Peacock, and Donald Calthrop. The soundtrack was recorded using the British Phototone sound-on-disc system. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. This film is important historically as being Britain's first all-talking feature film produced entirely in Britain. The first all-talking British feature production, a film entitled Black Waters, had been produced in the United States due to a lack of sound recording equipment in Britain.

The Clue of the New Pin
Directed byArthur Maude
Written byEdgar Wallace (novel)
Kathleen Hayden
Produced byS.W. Smith
StarringBenita Hume
Kim Peacock
Donald Calthrop
John Gielgud
CinematographyHorace Wheddon
Production
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Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • March 1929 (1929-03)
Running time
7,292 feet[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSound (All-Talking)
English

The film was one of only 10 filmed in British Phototone, a sound-on-disc system which used 12-inch discs. All of the other nine films made in this process were short films.[2] In March 1929, this film and The Crimson Circle, filmed in the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system, were 'trade-shown' to cinema exhibitors.[3]

This film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace. It was later remade in 1961.

Plot

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A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.

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Bibliography

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  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
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