The Ringer (1931 film)
| The Ringer | |
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Poster with Esmond Knight and Carol Goodner | |
| Directed by | Walter Forde |
| Written by | Sidney Gilliat Angus MacPhail Robert Stevenson |
| Based on | The Gaunt Stranger by Edgar Wallace |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | Patric Curwen Esmond Knight John Longden Carol Goodner |
| Cinematography | Alex Bryce |
| Edited by | Ian Dalrymple |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Ideal Films |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Ringer is a 1931 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden and Carol Goodner. Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England. The film was based on the 1925 Edgar Wallace story The Gaunt Stranger, which is the basis for his play The Ringer. Forde remade the same story in 1938 as The Gaunt Stranger. There was also a silent film of The Ringer in 1928, and a 1952 version starring Donald Wolfit.
It was made at Beaconsfield Studios in Buckinghamshire by Gainsborough Pictures in a co-production with British Lion Films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold. The author's son Bryan Edgar Wallace acted as a production manager.