The Ringer | |
Director: | Arthur Maude |
Starring: | Leslie Faber Annette Benson Lawson Butt Nigel Barrie |
Studio: | British Lion Film Corporation |
Distributor: | Ideal (UK) |
Runtime: | 86 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | Silent English intertitles |
The Ringer is a 1928 British silent crime film directed by Arthur Maude starring Leslie Faber, Annette Benson and Hayford Hobbs.[1] It was based on the 1925 Edgar Wallace novel The Gaunt Stranger. Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away. A talkie version of The Ringer followed in 1931.[2]
The film is one of the six screen adaptations of Wallace's novel.[3]