The Ringer (1928 film)

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]

• Leslie Faber as Dr. Lamond
• Annette Benson as Cora Ann Milton
• Lawson Butt as Maurice Meister
• Nigel Barrie as Insp. Wembury
• Hayford Hobbs as Insp. Bliss
• John F. Hamilton as John Lenley
• Charles Emerald as Sam Hackett
• Esther Rhodes as Gwenda Milton
• Muriel Angelus as Mary Lenley

The film is one of the six screen adaptations of Wallace's novel.^[3]

• The Ringer (1931)
• The Ringer (1932)
• The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
• The Ringer (1952)
• Der Hexer (1964)

• The Ringer at IMDb

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