The Crooked Circle
Film poster
Directed byH. Bruce Humberstone
Written byRalph Spence (original screenplay)
Tim Whelan (additional dialogue)
Produced byWilliam Sistrom
CinematographyRobert Kurrle
Edited byDoane Harrison
Distributed bySono Art-World Wide Pictures (1932 release)
Astor Pictures (re-release)
Release date
  • September 25, 1932 (1932-09-25)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Crooked Circle is a 1932 American pre-Code film, a comedy-mystery directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.

In 1933, The Crooked Circle was the first feature film shown on television. In Los Angeles, the Don Lee Broadcasting System showed the film on March 10, 1933, over their experimental station W6XAO, transmitting an 80-line resolution mechanical television picture to a half-dozen or fewer receiving sets in the greater Los Angeles area. The film was shown again on June 18, 1940 on the NBC Television experimental station WX2BS, now WNBC-TV in New York City.[1][2][3]

Plot

Amateur detectives in the Sphinx Club are rivals of an evil gang known as The Crooked Circle. When a Sphinx tip leads to an arrest of a Crooked Circle member, they swear revenge on Sphinx member Colonel Theodore Walters. Nora Rafferty complains to Old Dan about life in creepy Melody Manor.

Brand Osborne intends to resign from the Sphinx Club, and his replacement is the Indian Yoganda, who proclaims, "Evil is on the way." When Rafferty sees Yoganda's turban, she says, "I'm sorry you got a headache, sir. Shall I get you a Bromo-Seltzer?" Policeman Arthur Crimmer attempts to straighten out the confusion.

Cast

See also

  • Party Girl, the first commercial comedy-drama feature film shown on the Internet

References

  1. ↑ Dargis, Manohla. "Floating in the Digital Experience," The New York Times, December 30, 2009.
  2. ↑ The Crooked Circle: Details, archive.org; accessed September 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Television" (Newspapers.com). Los Angeles Evening Post-Record. Los Angeles CA. March 25, 1933. p. 6.


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