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The Wrecker (1929)
Directed by Géza von Bolváry
Crime, Drama · 1h 14m
A criminal organizes train crashes to discredit the railway in favor of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema. A scene which has been described as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
Cast
Carlyle Blackwell
Benita Hume
Winter Hall
Gordon Harker
Pauline Johnson
Crew
- Director
- Géza von Bolváry
- Screenplay
- Angus MacPhail
- Writer
- Arnold Ridley, Reginald Berkeley, Bernard Merivale, Benno Vigny
- Novel
- Edgar Wallace
- Director of Photography
- Otto Kanturek
- Editor
- Arthur Tavares
- Producer
- Arnold Pressburger, Josef Somlo, Hermann Fellner
Details
- Release date
- 1929-07-16
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Germany, United Kingdom