Red Pearls

Red Pearls
Directed by	Walter Forde
Produced by	Archibald Nettlefold
Written by	J. Randolph James (novel) Harry Fowler Mear Sidney Gilliat
Starring	Lillian Rich Frank Perfitt Arthur Pusey Frank Stanmore
Music by	Paul Mulder
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by	Culley Forde
Production company	Nettlefold Films
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service
Release dates	30 February 1930^[1]
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent English intertitles

Red Pearls is a 1930 British silent crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Lillian Rich, Frank Perfitt and Arthur Pusey. It was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton.^[2] It was based on the novel Nearer! Nearer! by J. Randolph James.^[3] The film was produced just as the change to sound films was taking place in Britain.

Synopsis

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.

Cast

Lillian Rich as Sylvia Radshaw
Frank Perfitt as Gregory Marston
Arthur Pusey as Paul Gordon
Frank Stanmore as Martin Radshaw
Kiyoshi Takase as Tamira
Gabrielle Brune
Harold Saxon-Snell

References

↑ Low p.375
↑ Wood p.67
↑ Goble p.925

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Red Pearls at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Walter Forde

What Next? (1928)
The Silent House (1929)
Wait and See (1929)
Would You Believe It! (1929)
You'd Be Surprised! (1930)
Red Pearls (1930)
The Last Hour (1930)
Lord Richard in the Pantry (1930)
Bed and Breakfast (1930)
Third Time Lucky (1931)
The Ringer (1931)
The Ghost Train (1931)
Splinters in the Navy (1931)
Condemned to Death (1932)
Lord Babs (1932)
Jack's the Boy (1932)
Rome Express (1932)
Orders Is Orders (1934)
Chu Chin Chow (1934)
Jack Ahoy (1934)
Bulldog Jack (1935)
Brown on Resolution (1935)
King of the Damned (1935)
Land Without Music (1936)
Kicking the Moon Around (1938)
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
Let's Be Famous (1939)
The Four Just Men (1939)
Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
Saloon Bar (1940)
Sailors Three (1940)
Gasbags (1941)
The Ghost Train (1941)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1941)
Atlantic Ferry (1941)
Flying Fortress (1942)
The Peterville Diamond (1943)
It's That Man Again (1943)
Time Flies (1944)
One Exciting Night (1944)
Master of Bankdam (1947)
Cardboard Cavalier (1949)

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